Re: [PATCH/RFC 05/17] gettext: make the simple parts of git-init localizable

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> The only way that could work is if I taught xgettext to extract
> strings passed to die(), but then managing the false positives would
> probably be more effort than just marking them manually, and it would
> be a big load on the translators:
> 
>     $ ack 'die\("(.*?)"' --output '$1' *[ch] builtin/*[ch] | sort -u | wc -l
>     1153

To pursue this a little further: would there be any false positives?

We could avoid overwhelming translators by waiting until a file has
been fulling gettextized before allowing xgettext to scavenge it
(i.e., temporarily using a hard-coded list of files in the xgettext
invocation).

>> Will strerror() cope correctly without LC_CTYPE set up?  (Not part
>> of this series, just something I was reminded of.)
>
> My GNU/Linux strerror(3) claims to use LC_MESSAGES, but I didn't test
> it.

Sounds like no, then.

$ cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(void)
{
        setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
        errno = ENODEV;
        perror("test");
        return 0;
}
$ make foo
cc     foo.c   -o foo
$ ./foo
test: No such device
$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./foo 
test: Kein passendes Ger?t gefunden