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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:48:36 -0500
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote:
>> =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 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.:
>=20
>     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.