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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jean-Noël AVILA" <jn.avila@free.fr>
Cc: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>,
	"Alexander Shopov" <ash@kambanaria.org>,
	"Jordi Mas" <jmas@softcatala.org>,
	"Ralf Thielow" <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>,
	"Christopher Díaz" <christopher.diaz.riv@gmail.com>,
	"Marco Paolone" <marcopaolone@gmail.com>,
	"Changwoo Ryu" <cwryu@debian.org>,
	"Vasco Almeida" <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>,
	"Dimitriy Ryazantcev" <DJm00n@mail.ru>,
	"Peter Krefting" <peter@softwolves.pp.se>,
	"Trần Ngọc Quân" <vnwildman@gmail.com>,
	"Jacques Viviers" <jacques.viviers@gmail.com>,
	m4sk1n <m4sk1n@o2.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: avoid sentence-lego in translated string
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:26:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7ew3rdxa.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7894534.MaGmRTisnX@cayenne> ("Jean-Noël AVILA"'s message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:11:42 +0200")

Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:

> On Monday, 9 October 2017, 09:47:26 CEST Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> I always assumed that translators are aware of these issues and sort of
>> work around this somehow, maybe like this:
>> 
>>   "submodule entry '%s' (%s) is not a commit. It is of type %s"
>
> Translators can be aware of the issue if the coder commented the 
> internationalization string with some possible candidates for the placeholders 
> when it is not clear unless you check in the source code. Much effort was 
> poured into translating the technical terms in other parts of Git; it seems 
> awkward to just step back in this occurence.

I do not see this particular case as "stepping back", though.

Our users do not spell "git cat-file -t commit v2.0^{commit}" with
'commit' translated to their language, right?  Shouldn't an error
message output use the same phrase the input side requests users to
use?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-10  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-08  7:38 [L10N] Kickoff of translation for Git 2.15.0 round 1 Jiang Xin
2017-10-08  8:48 ` [PATCH] submodule: avoid sentence-lego in translated string Martin Ågren
2017-10-08  9:32   ` Philip Oakley
2017-10-08 10:26     ` Martin Ågren
2017-10-09  0:51     ` brian m. carlson
2017-10-09  1:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-09  4:14         ` Martin Ågren
2017-10-09 16:47           ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-09 21:11             ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2017-10-10  1:26               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-10  2:35                 ` Changwoo Ryu
2017-10-10 18:14                   ` Martin Ågren
2017-10-08 12:18 ` [PATCH] i18n: add a missing space in message Jean-Noel Avila

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