Re: [PATCH 20/20] gettextize: git-am printf(1) message to eval_gettext

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:10, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> +++ b/git-am.sh
>> @@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ did you forget to use 'git add'?"; echo
>>        fi
>>        if test $apply_status != 0
>>        then
>> -               printf 'Patch failed at %s %s\n' "$msgnum" "$FIRSTLINE"
>> +               echo "$(eval_gettext "Patch failed at \$msgnum \$FIRSTLINE")"
>
> Probably I am missing something silly, but why not just:
>
>        eval_gettext 'Patch failed at $msgnum $FIRSTLINE\n'

That looks better, or:

    eval_gettext 'Patch failed at $msgnum $FIRSTLINE'; echo

To remove the change for translators to screw up the \n, the gettext
manual uses that style.

It also uses double quotes consistently, but '' works fine too. I
don't know if '' should be avoided for some other reason, probably
not.

> ? I ask because it is nice to be able to avoid "echo" with arbitrary
> data: special characters (e.g. \) can make for portability hassles.

Aside from this example (which looks nicer as you suggest) we'd be in
some slight trouble if the code in the patch is unportable, since I
think I'm using equivalent constructions elsewhere to thinks that get
passed to echo, but maybe that's not a problem if there's a level of
indirection.

In any case we could solve those with printf "%s" $str.