From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Translating error messages in Git (was: Re: [PATCH v3] git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1269185678-3039-1-git-send-email-erick.mattos@gmail.com> <3F619EAA-288D-4310-B9C6-8121FE00E7B0@pobox.com> <55bacdd31003220714qa9fb915k9fe152019b4d88b4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Johnsen , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Erick Mattos X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 22 17:06:59 2010 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 1Ntk9S-0004kw-IL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:06:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752920Ab0CVQGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:45 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com ([209.85.220.223]:40247 "EHLO mail-fx0-f223.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab0CVQGo (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:44 -0400 Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so877261fxm.21 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:06:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=093Yn2upY8YC/zl7352wqb+tdji5Fgu7fH6I15Zn4Dc=; b=U+8a6JpfMitZ7gTnFHFXEIKhp+qp3pGhIbj0Es+4XMm/21aYAZn3NTDwV8EYEZPnzS PEn9qyldqqvieME9mWiKJ1BKRUpdLHJD+YiSrWqSyTfikOUEgl9ANoyYa7YX3EiZNx8h E/0jpzc0WA36B//ius0VmLObP0ogfIkiIV878= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=gQp785+yrWpPJJLfh9VtdUenEjS2QOXXVmhXaLsnnOQug0jAbX1UaSwfF+/qOCuDZn i94z2Z+80L7L73WXJGyzHf3d0StyFB1Hn7/HRnWXvUMeQ5wCRkqnUNQDaiL81hw5XqR3 KvJv0l6PvrLL2fZEa4P5o790JSh1GLLZEcH4Y= Received: by 10.102.174.30 with SMTP id w30mr1413141mue.57.1269274002968; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvg192.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.204.192]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm23524628muh.28.2010.03.22.09.06.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o2MG6EmJ009254; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:06:24 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id o2MG5wGB009249; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:05:58 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <55bacdd31003220714qa9fb915k9fe152019b4d88b4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Erick Mattos writes: > After this wonderful English and modesty lessons, I started thinking: > since Git is a worldwide spread software why it is not using gettext > to have its translations? It would not be a hard job because gettext > separates the job of translation from normal work flow with just minor > changes to inline message constants. Git uses gettext, but only for gitk and git-gui. The problem is that git is written in C (which can use gettext), Perl (which can use Locale::Maketext / Locale::Maketext::Gettext), but has also some commands that are written in (POSIX) shell script. The $"..." syntax for message localization is bash-ism, and additionally it is deprecated -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git