[PATCH 4 0/1] Localize mark-up of placeholder text in the short help

Hi Junio,

I am resubmitting this patch to make the substitution placeholder text localizable. Fuller explanation and example are given in the commit message.

I have reworked the translator comments to be fuller, clearer and prompt the proper default in case of doubt.

Last time you asked me why I am localizing the `<>' characters for substitution but not the `[]' for optional values.

There are several reasons:

1. No one has asked for such a feature so currently there seems to be
no need for that.  If someone asks - it is easy to provide the feature
then.

2. <> are much more dangerous in the shell than [] when copy-pasted

3. So far Bulgarian translation is the only user of the localizability
of <> and the action there is to omit the characters entirely - they
are not needed as the alphabets are different.  Omitting them makes
messages shorter.  If you omit both <> and [] in messages for
terseness - messages will be ambiguous.

Please indicate whether this is fine. I will iterate on the patch until it is deemed acceptable.

Here are links to previous times I submitted the patch:

3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240707153526.97984-1-ash@kambanaria.org/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240525122514.2608-1-ash@kambanaria.org/
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240421180425.78940-1-ash@kambanaria.org/
0. (check for other teams) https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP6f5Mmi=f4DPcFwfvEiJMdKMa0BUyZ019mc8uFXyOufgD4NjA@mail.gmail.com/ 

Kind regards: al_shopov

Alexander Shopov (1):
  parse-options: localize mark-up of placeholder text in the short help

 parse-options.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)