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>,
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"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?
next prev parent 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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