From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:07:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Stable ab/i18n branch
Message-ID: <20101015000749.GD29494@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=LEzQu5_EyJ_ncRmsHfufG=AnEv9+eTQuqh5W7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi again,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> 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.