From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:10:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message
Message-ID: <20100831151044.GF2315@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1283203703-26923-7-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Note that the TRANSLATORS comment doesn't use the usual Git
> style. This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will
> extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including
> newlines and leading "*"'s.

How would it cope with the following?

	/* TRANSLATORS:
	 * The first '%s' is either "Reinitialized existing" or
	 * "Initialized empty", the second " shared" or "", and
	 * the last '%s%s' is the verbatim directory name.
	 */

The leading column of stars makes it easier to distinguish code
from comments.  (Plus I am not too happy to read code with two
inconsistent comment styles used.)