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No embedded URLs in translatable strings

Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos requested to merge DimitriPapadopoulos/openconnect:gettext into master

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Preparing-Strings

No embedded URLs

It is good to not embed URLs in translatable strings, for several reasons:

  • It avoids possible mistakes during copy and paste.
  • Translators cannot translate the URLs or, by mistake, use the URLs from other packages that are present in their compendium.
  • When the URLs change, translators don’t need to revisit the translation of the string.

The same holds for email addresses.

So, you would change

fputs (_("GNU GPL version 3 <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>\n"),
       stream);

to

fprintf (stream, _("GNU GPL version 3 <%s>\n"),
         "https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html");

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