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

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
May 17, 2010, 14:32 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:08, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > It would definitely not be fine to break *git*. You need to make sure no
> > part of git itself or anything distributed with it (gitk, git gui, gitweb,
> > things in contrib) is looking for any string that might be broken by
> > translating.
> 
> Of course internal breakage, i.e. git-foo parsing the output from
> git-bar breaking under non-English is unacceptable. I meant that
> external tools now running under some non-English locale may start
> breaking if they're parsing the output and assuming English. The
> remedy for that is easy though, just prefix the calls to git with
> LC_ALL=C.

And how exactly do you expect us to go back in history and prefix all invocations of git in all scripts with LC_ALL=C?

Porcelain such as git-status could be changed, but then there's not that much of it anyway. IMHO a set of standard documentation in each language would be more useful.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2010
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 16, 2010
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 16, 2010
  4. Dmitry PotapovMay 16, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 16, 2010
  6. Jan HudecMay 16, 2010
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 16, 2010
  8. Thomas RastMay 17, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 17, 2010
  10. Thomas RastMay 17, 2010
  11. Jan HudecMay 17, 2010
  12. Will PalmerMay 17, 2010
  13. Michael J GruberMay 18, 2010
  14. Thomas SingerMay 18, 2010
  15. Will PalmerMay 18, 2010
  16. Jan HudecMay 22, 2010
  17. demerphqMay 19, 2010
  18. Thomas SingerMay 16, 2010
  19. Marc WeberMay 17, 2010
  20. Peter KreftingMay 18, 2010

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