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

From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: May 18, 2010, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <1274189611.1294.10.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>
In-Reply-To: <4BF25F7C.10303@syntevo.com>

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:35 +0200, Thomas Singer wrote:

> ... and even worse, (s)he will most likely
> not be able to find a solution by searching google for this error message.
>

Other software projects make this a non-issue by reporting an "error code" or something along those lines, along with the message. The code is easily indexed, so that the message can be located by support staff and, nowadays, google. I assume any internationalization effort would require a message code of some sort be generated internally (if only to look up which internationalized message to display), so doing something as simple as outputting the internally-used code (even if that is just a hash of the English version of the message) could solve this problem.

Having error messages pasted into #git in 14 different languages could be annoying, but if those are 14 people who otherwise would not be using git at all, then I expect we're looking at the wrong problem, and internationalisation /should/ be a priority.

But what do I know? I speak English :)