From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark strings for translation
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:29:47 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BUaJ8sRw2EtgrTe0X4khCsuKFD75ON12oC1FvqdMXr=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475066620.3257.12.camel@sapo.pt>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> wrote:
> A Dom, 25-09-2016 às 15:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano escreveu:
>> > @@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ sub list_untracked {
>> > }
>> >
>> > my $status_fmt = '%12s %12s %s';
>> > -my $status_head = sprintf($status_fmt, 'staged', 'unstaged', 'path');
>> > +my $status_head = sprintf($status_fmt, __('staged'), __('unstaged'), __('path'));
>>
>> Wouldn't it make sense to allow translators to tweak $status_fmt if
>> you are allowing the earlier elements that are formatted with %12s,
>> as their translation may not fit within that width, in which case
>> they may want to make these columns wider?
>
> As far as I understand, %12s means that the argument printed will have
> a minimum length of 12 columns. So if the translation of 'stage' is
> longer than 12 it will be printed fully no matter what. Though in that
> case, the header will not be align correctly anymore:
> for other instances of this in the present patch series.
It's 12 bytes, not columns (unless perl understands input string's
encoding, which I doubt). Think about multi-byte encodings like utf-8,
where three letters (or "columns") do not necessary mean three bytes.
The result is most likely unaligned in that case.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 12:31 [PATCH v2 00/11] Mark strings in perl script for translation Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark strings " Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-28 12:43 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-09-28 14:29 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2016-09-28 16:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 21:21 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark simple here documents " Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 14:31 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-09-29 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 21:27 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-09-29 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-03 12:43 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-09-30 17:26 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-03 13:21 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark strings with interpolation " Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 22:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 17:52 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-03 12:41 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark plural strings Vasco Almeida
2016-09-26 18:15 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-09-26 18:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-01 16:49 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-03 12:46 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark message for translation Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-01 17:09 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-03 12:49 ` Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] i18n: add--interactive: i18n of help_patch_cmd Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark edit_hunk_manually message for translation Vasco Almeida
2016-10-01 18:48 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] i18n: send-email: mark strings " Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-25 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-01 18:55 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] i18n: send-email: mark warnings and errors " Vasco Almeida
2016-10-01 19:51 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] i18n: send-email: mark string with interpolation " Vasco Almeida
2016-08-31 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] i18n: difftool: mark warnings " Vasco Almeida
2016-09-25 23:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-01 19:56 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31 17:23 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Mark strings in perl script " Junio C Hamano
2016-09-25 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-29 15:09 Vasco Almeida
2016-06-29 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] i18n: add--interactive: mark strings " Vasco Almeida
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