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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:48:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831154836.GK2315@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVGJugnxFzk9Vy2BOZiH=PXWmNs108qs1oSwdy@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>>> This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will
>>> extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including
>>> newlines and leading "*"'s.
[...]
> As I was (trying) to get across in the the commit message it'll make
> the *'s part of the message. I.e.:
> 
>     TRANSLATORS: * The first '%s' is either "Reinitialized existing"
>     or * "Initialized empty", the second " shared" or "", and * the
>     last '%s%s' is the verbatim directory name.

Ah, so you meant "not including newlines but including leading '*''s".

Hmm, this is annoying.  Searching existing projects, it seems that
a lot of people are just not using the TRANSLATORS: feature except
for one-line comments.

Thanks for the explanation.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30 21:28 [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 01/17] Makefile: A variable for options used by xgettext(1) calls Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 14:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 16:36     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 02/17] Makefile: provide a --msgid-bugs-address to xgettext(1) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 03/17] Makefile: tell xgettext(1) that our source is in UTF-8 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 04/17] builtin.h: Include gettext.h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 05/17] gettext: make the simple parts of git-init localizable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:03   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 15:37     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:44       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 16:05         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 16:09           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 16:27           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:10   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 15:39     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:48       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 07/17] gettext.c: work around us not using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:18   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 15:37     ` Marcin Cieslak
2010-08-31 15:49       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 16:51     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 22:45       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 22:58         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 08/17] gettext tests: test if $VERSION exists before using it Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 09/17] gettext tests: update test/is.po to match t/t0200/test.c Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 10/17] gettext tests: add detection for is_IS.ISO-8859-1 locale Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 11/17] gettext tests: test message re-encoding under Shell Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 12/17] gettext tests: test re-encoding with a UTF-8 msgid " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 13/17] gettext tests: mark a test message as not needing translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 14/17] po/is.po: msgmerge and add Language: header Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 15/17] po/is.po: add Icelandic translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:29   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 17:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 19:14       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-08-31 19:32         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 19:49           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 16/17] po/pl.po: add Polish translation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 17/17] gettext tests: test message re-encoding under C Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-30 21:42 ` [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git Junio C Hamano
2010-08-31  9:02   ` [PATCH] gettext: Make NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease the default in releases Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 17:18   ` [PATCH/RFC 00/17] Begin gettextizing Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 18:08     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 18:24       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 19:22         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 19:35           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 19:42             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 11:08 ` Peter Krefting
2010-08-31 11:42   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 11:48     ` Peter Krefting
2010-08-31 12:02     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-31 12:43       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 16:05   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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