Re: ab/i18n (What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23))

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> The commit message for the second one seems to have been mangled:
>
> 	i18n: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate translated messages unfriendly translator

Yeah, I think I was fooled by the header folding while fixing things up
inside the mailbox.

> I still don't like the #-sign business in this commit.  Couldn't it
> be split into a separate patch, not to be applied until just before
> the strings in commit/tag/wt-status are marked for translation?

That might be a sensible thing to do.   Ævar what do you think?

> There is also a patch out there to make this use rot13, which I am
> somewhat fond of.  Unfortunately, it leaks (because it is not clear
> how long translated strings are supposed to last).

Yeah I would imagine it would leak.  Also blindly running rot13 to turn %d
into %q is probably not what you want.

> I'd be happy with renaming use_poison() to gettext_poison() or
> similar.  I suppose that is not urgent.

I would prefer to be able to merge the first handful to 'master' sooner
rather than later to minimize the damage to in-flight topics, though.

Thanks.