From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1045720248 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727334AbfDUM7x (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:59:53 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-4.talktalk.net ([62.24.135.68]:21990 "EHLO smtp-out-4.talktalk.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726280AbfDUM7x (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:59:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.12] ([92.21.144.249]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id IC4ThWXkrnuQZIC4Thsu0r; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:59:50 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=talktalk.net; s=cmr1711; t=1555851590; bh=VggZSeUSHTgI0I+YdKYmHHTTRuNmzunIs8z9+1KrIng=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=ikkPPGLUnIQTHOaVqkl2RYg52ndCiHtTHqL9cyuQdpuJoDfJwicjkLQEqo24W2ZbI QF5dNXnVxm1O//y1jhbgifsEconQKf84kOtdtAF7B+RuMUUxaTalE3Z5ci1ZnWHRLj nEPR2M4Kr1AoprPsMl+cFM1gxZt6aapHm5sY+dcI= X-Originating-IP: [92.21.144.249] X-Spam: 0 X-OAuthority: v=2.3 cv=echDgIMH c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Dgn57AdRJ25t4HaDIyq3iQ==:117 a=Dgn57AdRJ25t4HaDIyq3iQ==:17 a=jpOVt7BSZ2e4Z31A5e1TngXxSK0=:19 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=5rxgeBVgAAAA:8 a=5a-1AXuaAAAA:8 a=5Q5CwvjKAAAA:20 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=1AEPuxCWPGrWkL7HYGcA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=PwKx63F5tFurRwaNxrlG:22 a=WFVlYr1VzdVvABZhjiIM:22 Subject: Re: gettext, multiple Preferred languages, and English To: Andrew Janke , git@vger.kernel.org, Jiang Xin References: From: Philip Oakley Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:59:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAuK3Gqu/HWM+mglhJpS1wSrG1HJA5F8ICw/D1SNo2b7hOS4Rj9hSTUriUFT+tdF1hmRzC7qDIYuO12gQA30E3SVSUaaHIGHZMkNK/QIR1XkxSetzK5H 9+si14HlMAcTQPB1WOKEha2tp3J9n+mahbWeQmLDy4W7KrxCj+sIXI4m543X0AN/M6p1tcvKcMACV/zyjaoHcUypNIMfBBZEgSPt0sJrjKV/anJfQ3/ZW1NM rMRB5hSjlzJIjADF0r/5GQ== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, On 21/04/2019 12:08, Andrew Janke wrote: https://public-inbox.org/git/d001a2b5-57c3-1eb3-70fd-679919bb2eb6@apjanke.net/ > I don't think it would even have > to be actively maintained, because for new message strings that aren't > included in the .po file, it would fall back to the non-translated input > strings, which are in English anyway, which is the desired behavior. Given the above comment, could the en.po file (https://github.com/apjanke/git/blob/english-dummy-translation/po/en.po) be some very very short version with only one 'translated' string? This may be a way-off comment, but if it could be such a simple maintenance free file then that sounds sensible. also adding in Jiang Xin , the coordinator for extra comment. Philip