From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/73] gettext tests: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate unfriendly translator Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:50:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7vhbbwdjnm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1298418152-27789-3-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com> <20110225070834.GB23037@elie> <7vvd08atnu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 25 21:00:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt3qF-0003EZ-8r for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:00:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932890Ab1BYUAi convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:00:38 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63216 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932648Ab1BYUAh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:00:37 -0500 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so2022267fxm.19 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:00:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JE7zI/kdKJfjD7XPYZ2R+/OpOWXLN/6UOkiGP7C96Yw=; b=vZJgpu60FbbnPSCVrF41KmLcSVtnrJ7ynF2uj6nhHQvmIa4IJkBldg4QGKgi4i8XL0 ubYAEAdD6GWwQ49v3mcC1DI1dsYGYipNEPzfbvdJcbkc5u19EcaBOfLPbo18GmoeQdTg jjhDtvaJBFD4TavX9tTnK7j2n5AKxjqBnFdZ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=u1cV0KmcXSVoWMHHi+2U9gJB7koGCGoBLm7smS53cPHFutZr4A69asVnjf3Fu4vzv4 xJj8sxLzcC+k+udi2bdpfsAh1H8o7nrnE7Po/0THNCgGg5JtyJ2+x375EO3fRRobXDqP Ojaq1GycXmShvoglx1EanYGslpTpnEp9DWnAk= Received: by 10.223.103.197 with SMTP id l5mr3191861fao.7.1298663405093; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:50:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.2.201 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:50:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7vvd08atnu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 18:52, Junio C Hamano wrote= : > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > [offtopic: why is Jakub on the CC list? -- I don't recall him saying = much > on this topic yet...] I see that I screwed up my J-completion. I meant to include Jonathan, not Jakub. Oops. Sorry for the spam Jakub. >> The idea of the GETTEXT_POISON facility is to simulate a worst-case >> translation, so that strings marked for translation that cause troub= le >> can be noticed and dealt with. > > I've never thought this was about a "worst-case translation". > > Isn't this about emitting all the strings marked for translation in a= form > significantly different from the original, in the hope that such an o= utput > would help us find messages that should never be marked for translati= on by > triggering test failures? =C2=A0I do not see any "worst-case", just d= ifferent > enough for the plumbing tests to break. > > IOW, I don't think this is about helping translators in l10n, but abo= ut > helping coders in i18n department. Yes, exactly.