From: Thomas Rast Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:32:47 GMT Subject: Re: Has anyone looked at Gettext support for Git itself? Message-ID: <201005171632.48253.trast@student.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:08, Jan Hudec 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