Re: [PATCH] Revert diffstat back to English

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:40:12AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > More than one people explicitly said that they do not want to see
> > this in Klingon.  Even if the system is fully internationalized,
> > these "... (+), ... (-)" should never be localized, just like we
> > will never localize "diff --git", "index f00f..abcd", etc.
> 
> Nah, I was being silly.  People complaining on Klingon on _this_
> list does not argue for this to be in "C"; it just means the
> i18n.projectlang for this project is "C".

Right, I think that is the case.

> How about _not_ reverting it and doing something like this instead?
> [...]
> +static int project_lang_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb_data)
> +{
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "i18n.projectlang")) {
> +		setenv("LANG", val, 1);
> +		setenv("LC_ALL", val, 1);
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}

Doesn't that mean that anyone working on git.git will never get to see
their localized language, even when it is not likely to be communicated
to the rest of the project? I am OK with that as a native speaker, but I
wonder what others would have to say.

I suspect we will end up with people not setting i18n.projectlang, and
getting Klingon diffstats on the list.

-Peff