Re: How to run git-gui always in English?

From

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Date

Oct 23, 2007, 22:45 UTC

Message-ID

<20071023224537.GH14735@spearce.org>

In-Reply-To

<5AD0C329-7136-42A3-9202-865E70A29B65@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> >How can I switch msysgit's git-gui to English, independently of
> >the language selected for Windows? I recognized that git-gui
> >adjusts to the 'language selection' of Windows. How can I
> >disable this? I want git-gui to always display English. Nothing
> >else, never! I can't help people who use a different language
> >in the gui, because I'll not understand what they are talking
> >about and they'll not understand me.
> 
> And it's even worse. An error in the localization can completely
> break git-gui. Apparently the German localization included in
> msysgit's Git-1.5.3-preview20071019.exe _is_ broken (see
> attached png).
> 
> Shouldn't the localization code be a bit more fault tolerant?

Yes.  This is a possible workaround:

>From 410aa617e7ca8240500e90f0b0389bde7b7b40aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:44:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: Protect against bad translation strings

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 git-gui.sh |   15 +++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 38c6e59..a7227ac 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -88,13 +88,20 @@ if {![catch {set _verbose $env(GITGUI_VERBOSE)}]} {
 
 package require msgcat
 
-proc mc {fmt args} {
-	set fmt [::msgcat::mc $fmt]
+proc _mc_trim {fmt} {
 	set cmk [string first @@ $fmt]
 	if {$cmk > 0} {
-		set fmt [string range $fmt 0 [expr {$cmk - 1}]]
+		return [string range $fmt 0 [expr {$cmk - 1}]]
 	}
-	return [eval [list format $fmt] $args]
+	return $fmt
+}
+
+proc mc {en_fmt args} {
+	set fmt [_mc_trim [::msgcat::mc $en_fmt]]
+	if {[catch {set msg [eval [list format $fmt] $args]} err]} {
+		set msg [eval [list format [_mc_trim $en_fmt]] $args]
+	}
+	return $msg
 }
 
 proc strcat {args} {

-- 
1.5.3.4.1324.ga7925



-- 
Shawn.