Re: Stable ab/i18n branch

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 00:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20101015000749.GD29494@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=LEzQu5_EyJ_ncRmsHfufG=AnEv9+eTQuqh5W7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi again,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> While that's not a perfect solution I think it's the best we're going
> to get for the time being. I'm pretty convinced that if I tried to
> make git itself LC_CTYPE-safe as part of this already huge series it'd
> never get merged. Having messages with question marks from strerror()
> on certain platforms is an OK compromise in my opinion.

The question marks[1] are what I was referring to. Consider this from the point of view of someone working on the Debian package: would users consider that an appropriate or positive change for squeeze+1? (Hint: not if it doesn't come with some benefit in their locale, no.)

I suspect making git work with other LC_CTYPE would not actually be too hard[2]. Such fixes are useful for futureproofing and increased sanity anyway --- they do not have to be part of the l10n branch imho.

[1] fatal: unable to stat 'foo.c': Op?ration non permise [2] except that annoying printf bug.