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From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v4 1/7] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:31:17 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006021224170.4751@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinzZUaFBzNHzxBA94ECeUKdejVGqSQF1TUtOrrk@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

> But maybe that's counter-productive. Just making the English strings 
> translatable as-is is still going to make most of Git translatable, and it 
> isn't going to be that bad for languages like German and French.

I think this is the best approach. Without actually making *everything* 
available for translation it is impossible to weed out the problems. Some of 
the easier "hack" strings (plural word%s, sentence %s%s building, etc) can 
be fixed during conversion, the rest can be done later as complai^Wcomments 
come in.

> It would be useful to have an example of a message that could use 
> pluralization, even better examples in all of C, Perl and Shell.

There is the "Your branch is ahead of..." messages, they were introduced in 
commit b0030db331141bedfaf02f34a83f18712c0ae011, and are currently using a 
"commit%s" form, where the %s either maps to an empty string or "s". Should 
be fairly trivial to fix. I think there are other examples as well, but 
that's the first one I came to think of. :-)

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-29 22:45 [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Add internationalization support to Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-29 22:45 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-29 22:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] gitignore: Ignore files generated by gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-29 22:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] Makefile: Remove Gettext files on make clean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-29 22:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] gettext: Add a skeleton po/is.po Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-29 22:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] Add infrastructure to make shellscripts translatable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30  1:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Add internationalization support to Git Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-30 16:04   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 22:23     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-31 12:17       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 0/6] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 1/6] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 17:01   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-01 18:11     ` [PATCH/RCF] autoconf: Check if <libintl.h> exists and set NO_GETTEXT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 21:22       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 2/6] gitignore: Ignore files generated by gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 3/6] Makefile: Remove Gettext files on make clean Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 4/6] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for shell scripts Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 5/6] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for Perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 17:00   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-01 19:06     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02 11:47       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-05-30 20:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 6/6] gettext: Add a skeleton po/is.po Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-30 21:29   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-30 21:39     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-31 14:17     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 0/7] Add internationalization support to Git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  0:11   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:05     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:05     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 1/7] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  9:12       ` Peter Krefting
2010-06-02  9:29         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02 10:11           ` Peter Krefting
2010-06-02 10:56             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02 11:31               ` Peter Krefting [this message]
2010-06-02  1:05     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 2/7] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for shell scripts Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:06     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 3/7] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for Perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:06     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 4/7] Makefile: Don't install Gettext .mo files if NO_GETTEXT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:06     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 5/7] Makefile: Override --keyword= for all languages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:06     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 6/7] gettext: Sanity tests for Git's Gettext support Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  1:06     ` [PATCH/RFC v4 7/7] gettext: Add a skeleton po/is.po Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  6:32     ` [PATCH/RFC v3 0/7] Add internationalization support to Git Johannes Sixt
2010-06-02 22:33     ` [PATCH/RFC v5 0/2] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02 22:33     ` [PATCH/RFC v5 1/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02 22:33     ` [PATCH/RFC v5 2/2] Add initial C, Shell and Perl gettext translations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 1/7] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 2/7] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for shell scripts Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  6:32   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-02  8:53     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  9:38       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 3/7] gettext: Add a Gettext interface for Perl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 4/7] Makefile: Don't install Gettext .mo files if NO_GETTEXT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 5/7] Makefile: Override --keyword= for all languages Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 6/7] gettext: Basic sanity tests for Git's Gettext support Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-02  6:32   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-01 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 7/7] gettext: Add a skeleton po/is.po Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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