From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Stable ab/i18n branch Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:07:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20101015000749.GD29494@burratino> References: <7v39s9fkk1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20101014200027.GA18813@burratino> <20101014205413.GD28958@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Erik Faye-Lund To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 15 02:11:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6XtQ-0008M4-NX for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:11:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754026Ab0JOALQ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:11:16 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:42901 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753060Ab0JOALP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:11:15 -0400 Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so103155yxm.19 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:11:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=TRgnHN5Tcb6trAxAQj/3A74rKkH7/7dAmw91LWQCiqI=; b=GcVKBISEFPkIrjqPOEi7BK3G2uS1trlxbOTQ5swK6tkVyf4UGU+qd/PaHeBhdMj66j /tdJVINhydrEy7AGNJSJFOnY2YP3AyYyf/4bUG9EMw6J7t1IlGHH8j3Zy1z7LIVtTK8N aX8CCXas8/QslIdfexPaqmFIp01hTKq4jR+Bw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=MP/8khKCEUUSOow7EyboK4fE4W70LR7dK8c56lVwBUqFhyWWvMq2QyhtRuog2XWzok eASL9xHec0fZH0WlAiFP63NBtTArPUQ6Stsw/iFcHHlpjn0RoKSk38oIIIwfHSUhrGPP umOcv4y5LPWBnqfO0dUkgmZdIJDaoA83ljshU= Received: by 10.90.82.8 with SMTP id f8mr5338683agb.30.1287101474838; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burratino (adsl-68-255-106-176.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [68.255.106.176]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x21sm8741842yhc.35.2010.10.14.17.11.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi again, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > While that's not a perfect solution I think it's the best we're going > to get for the time being. I'm pretty convinced that if I tried to > make git itself LC_CTYPE-safe as part of this already huge series it'= d > never get merged. Having messages with question marks from strerror() > on certain platforms is an OK compromise in my opinion. The question marks[1] are what I was referring to. Consider this from the point of view of someone working on the Debian package: would users consider that an appropriate or positive change for squeeze+1? (Hint: not if it doesn't come with some benefit in their locale, no.) I suspect making git work with other LC_CTYPE would not actually be too hard[2]. Such fixes are useful for futureproofing and increased sanity anyway --- they do not have to be part of the l10n branch imho. [1] fatal: unable to stat 'foo.c': Op?ration non permise [2] except that annoying printf bug.