From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Frederik Schwarzer" <schwarzerf@gmail.com>,
"Brandon Casey" <drafnel@gmail.com>,
dickey@invisible-island.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correct singular form in diff summary line for human interaction
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:56:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120201015606.GA24482@debian50-32.invisible-island.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dd4_Pnvzxww38EfZt8NgRow+qxCReohc45XoNpfJCbYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:32:43AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> If there is an environment variable to say "I don't want to see
> >> variations on strings intended for humans", can it be spelled as
> >> LC_ALL=C?
> >
> > ...
... diffstat (google helped find context)
> > If we were to touch this, I would prefer to do so unconditionally without
> > "hrm, can we reliably guess this is meant for humans?" and release it
> > unceremoniously, perhaps as part of the next release that will have a much
> > bigger user-visible UI correction to 'merge'.
>
> Unconditionally change is fine to me. There's another implication
> that's not mentioned in the commit message, this change also allows
> non-English translations. Any objections on i18n or we just keep this
> line English only? Personally if scripts do not matter any more, I see
> no reasons this line cannot be translated.
I seem to recall that gettext does support plurals...
However, going that route means that even innocuous things like the
parentheses "(+)" can be mangled by translators (guaranteed to break
scripts ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 14:24 [PATCH] Correct singular form in diff summary line for human interaction Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-01-31 15:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-31 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-01 1:32 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-01 1:45 ` Thomas Dickey
2012-02-01 1:56 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2012-02-01 2:37 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-01 3:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-01 9:40 ` Thomas Dickey
2012-02-01 12:55 ` [PATCH v2] Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-02-01 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02 14:22 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-02 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-03 1:11 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-03 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-03 12:24 ` Jeff King
2012-02-01 23:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-02-02 0:20 ` [RFC/PATCH] i18n: do not define gettext/ngettext in NO_GETTEXT case Jonathan Nieder
2012-02-02 0:27 ` [PATCH v2] Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line Jonathan Nieder
2012-02-02 0:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 4:51 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] tests: diffstat summary line varies by locale (Re: [PATCH v2] Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line) Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 4:54 ` [PATCH 1/7] test: use test_i18ncmp when checking --stat output Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 6:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-13 6:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-13 6:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 6:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 4:58 ` [PATCH 2/7] test: use numstat instead of diffstat in funny-names test Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 4:59 ` [PATCH 3/7] test: modernize funny-names test style Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 5:00 ` [PATCH 4/7] test: test cherry-pick functionality and output separately Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 5:01 ` [PATCH 5/7] test: use --numstat instead of --stat in "git stash show" tests Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 5:02 ` [PATCH 6/7] test: use numstat instead of diffstat in binary-diff test Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-13 5:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] diffstat summary line varies by locale: miscellany Jonathan Nieder
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