Re: Bikeshedding advice on the ab/i18n-scripts series

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

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 23:26, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> That would require us to start extracting strings from all "say"
>> functions. The reason we have only "gettext" and "eval_gettext" is so
>> xgettext can extract them.
>
> Isn't that what the xgettext -k parameter is for?

I'm not saying we can't use xgettext to extract these things. I'm
saying I don't think it's a good idea.

    $ git --no-pager grep say git-submodule.sh
    git-submodule.sh:                       say "$(eval_gettext
"Entering '\$prefix\$path'")"
    git-submodule.sh:               say "$(eval_gettext "Submodule
'\$name' (\$url) registered for path '\$path'")"
    git-submodule.sh:                       say "$(eval_gettext
"Submodule path '\$path' not initialized
    git-submodule.sh:
say_msg="$(eval_gettext "Submodule path '\$path': rebased into
'\$sha1'")"
    git-submodule.sh:
say_msg="$(eval_gettext "Submodule path '\$path': merged in
'\$sha1'")"
    git-submodule.sh:
say_msg="$(eval_gettext "Submodule path '\$path': checked out
'\$sha1'")"
    git-submodule.sh:                       say $say_msg
    git-submodule.sh:                       say "U$sha1 $displaypath"
    git-submodule.sh:                       say "-$sha1 $displaypath"
    git-submodule.sh:                       say " $sha1 $displaypath$revname"
    git-submodule.sh:                       say "+$sha1 $displaypath$revname"
    git-submodule.sh:               say "$(eval_gettext "Synchronizing
submodule url for '\$name'")"

I want to mark *some* of these *manually* as translatable, I don't
want to go and extract strings from all invocations to functions like
printf & die, instead I want to add a printf(_()) wrapper to
everything.