Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself?

From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Date: May 17, 2010, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <1274108567-sup-1380@nixos>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinlDF-aKDjwvgZEqtUgzW7MCIuElQ_RfJn_RkZp@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Ãvar ArnfjÃ¶rÃ° Bjarmason's message of Sun May 16 00:10:09 +0200 2010:

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> I couldn't find anything about this in the list archives. Have there
> been any discussions of adding internationalization support to Git
> itself? I.e. the interface messages that the core Git utilities emit.
> 
> I tried to get started with integrating GNU Gettext, but gnuish
> assumptions it makes about building make it a bit hard.
> 
> Is there perhaps another gettext implementation that would be more
> suitable for Git?
> 
> I'd be interested in submitting patches to make the existing strings
> translatable if someone could get the tool + build skeleton going.

It may sound silly and stupid: My coworker has had much trouble because he doesn't know English at all. You could help those people very much by creating a git-translator.org page where you can copy paste failures which are translated only.

In the end you must have seen any failure multiple times to cope with it - no matter which language this message was written in. However having an understandable text may help.

Marc Weber