From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:50:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git: problematic git status output with some translations (such as fr_FR)
Message-ID: <20131219205049.GE20443@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk3f0efhe.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> This includes the colon in the translated string, to make it easier to
>> remember to keep the non-breaking space before it.
>
> Hmph, recent 3651e45c (wt-status: take the alignment burden off
> translators, 2013-11-05) seems to have gone in the different
> direction when it updated similar code for the non-unmerged paths.

Yes, if this seems to go in the right direction, I'd add a follow-up
for that when rerolling.

Alternatively if there is some library function to append a colon to a
string in a locale-appropriate way, that could work, too.  Pointers
welcome.

Thanks,
Jonathan