Re: [PATCH/RFC 06/17] gettext: localize the main git-init message

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Aug 31, 2010, 15:48 UTC

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>>> This is because everything from "/* TRANSLATORS: " to "*/" will
>>> extracted as-is xgettext(1) and presented to translators, including
>>> newlines and leading "*"'s.

[...]

> As I was (trying) to get across in the the commit message it'll make
> the *'s part of the message. I.e.:
> 
>     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.

Ah, so you meant "not including newlines but including leading '*''s".

Thanks for the explanation.