From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Weber Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself? Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:04:56 +0200 Message-ID: <1274108567-sup-1380@nixos> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: =?utf-8?q?=C3=86var_Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0_Bjarmason?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 17 17:05:27 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OE1sk-0004Tt-Ov for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 17:05:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753823Ab0EQPFE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 11:05:04 -0400 X-Warning: Original message contained 8-bit characters, however during the SMTP transport session the receiving system did not announce capability of receiving 8-bit SMTP (RFC 1651-1653), and as this message does not have MIME headers (RFC 2045-2049) to enable encoding change, we had very little choice. X-Warning: We ASSUME it is less harmful to add the MIME headers, and convert the text to Quoted-Printable, than not to do so, and to strip the message to 7-bits.. (RFC 1428 Appendix A) X-Warning: We don't know what character set the user used, thus we had to write these MIME-headers with our local system default value. Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:45073 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753494Ab0EQPFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 11:05:00 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 May 2010 15:04:57 -0000 Received: from pD9E0AA3C.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO mail.gmx.net) [217.224.170.60] by mail.gmx.net (mp061) with SMTP; 17 May 2010 17:04:57 +0200 X-Authenticated: #9006135 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/E5rldjOzEkpPCxjowVJsVsX3Ehz76TKGEW9BEP5 pXCh0S2Y+9Qbdh Received: by mail.gmx.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 17 May 2010 17:04:56 +0200 In-reply-to: User-Agent: Sup/git X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Excerpts from =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason's message of Sun M= ay 16 00:10:09 +0200 2010: > I couldn't find anything about this in the list archives. Have there > been any discussions of adding internationalization support to Git > itself? I.e. the interface messages that the core Git utilities emit. >=20 > I tried to get started with integrating GNU Gettext, but gnuish > assumptions it makes about building make it a bit hard. >=20 > Is there perhaps another gettext implementation that would be more > suitable for Git? >=20 > I'd be interested in submitting patches to make the existing strings > translatable if someone could get the tool + build skeleton going. It may sound silly and stupid: My coworker has had much trouble because he doesn't know English at all. You could help those people very much by creating a git-translator.org page where you can copy paste failures which are translated only. In the end you must have seen any failure multiple times to cope with it - no matter which language this message was written in. However having an understandable text may help. Marc Weber