From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself? Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:47 +0200 Message-ID: <201005171632.48253.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <20100516160800.GB22447@efreet.light.src> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jan Hudec , Jakub Narebski , Git Mailing List To: =?iso-8859-1?q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 17 16:32:56 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 1OE1NI-0002v9-CF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752777Ab0EQOcu convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 10:32:50 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:27255 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752374Ab0EQOcu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 10:32:50 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:48 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:08, Jan Hudec wrote: > > It would definitely not be fine to break *git*. You need to make su= re no > > part of git itself or anything distributed with it (gitk, git gui, = gitweb, > > things in contrib) is looking for any string that might be broken b= y > > translating. >=20 > Of course internal breakage, i.e. git-foo parsing the output from > git-bar breaking under non-English is unacceptable. I meant that > external tools now running under some non-English locale may start > breaking if they're parsing the output and assuming English. The > remedy for that is easy though, just prefix the calls to git with > LC_ALL=3DC. And how exactly do you expect us to go back in history and prefix all invocations of git in all scripts with LC_ALL=3DC? Porcelain such as git-status could be changed, but then there's not that much of it anyway. IMHO a set of standard documentation in each language would be more useful. --=20 Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch