From: Marc Weber Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:04:56 GMT Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself? Message-ID: <1274108567-sup-1380@nixos> In-Reply-To: Excerpts from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's message of Sun May 16 00:10:09 +0200 2010: > 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