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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] i18n: avoid conflict with ngettext from libintl
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Hmph.  An obviously safer alternative would be to use git_ngettext() =
in
> our source all over the place, and it would by even more peace of min=
d but
> that is even longer.

Right.  That is tempting.

=C3=86var, is there some usual or obvious abbreviated form for ngettext=
 we
could use to avoid this fuss altogether?

> Also the same problem exists already for the _() macro.

The usual convention is that the _() macro is private to each
application.  libintl provides a gettext function or macro, and
various programs do

	#define _(msg) gettext(msg)

in some private header (that does not pollute the public namespace)
for notational convenience.