From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005171632.48253.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinGSBRMRyaD0w2p9PQELLA6ThvKFdi6hcNWBTxr@mail.gmail.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:08, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > It would definitely not be fine to break *git*. You need to make sure no
> > part of git itself or anything distributed with it (gitk, git gui, gitweb,
> > things in contrib) is looking for any string that might be broken by
> > translating.
>
> Of course internal breakage, i.e. git-foo parsing the output from
> git-bar breaking under non-English is unacceptable. I meant that
> external tools now running under some non-English locale may start
> breaking if they're parsing the output and assuming English. The
> remedy for that is easy though, just prefix the calls to git with
> LC_ALL=C.
And how exactly do you expect us to go back in history and prefix all
invocations of git in all scripts with LC_ALL=C?
Porcelain such as git-status could be changed, but then there's not
that much of it anyway. IMHO a set of standard documentation in each
language would be more useful.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-17 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-15 22:10 Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-16 0:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-05-16 1:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-16 5:36 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-05-16 13:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-16 16:08 ` Jan Hudec
2010-05-16 17:37 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-17 14:32 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-05-17 14:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-17 15:12 ` Thomas Rast
2010-05-17 17:59 ` Jan Hudec
2010-05-17 18:56 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-18 7:51 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-05-18 9:35 ` Thomas Singer
2010-05-18 13:33 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-22 11:01 ` Jan Hudec
2010-05-19 15:43 ` demerphq
2010-05-16 16:53 ` Thomas Singer
2010-05-17 15:04 ` Marc Weber
2010-05-18 7:12 ` Peter Krefting
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