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> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:30, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com> wrote:
>>> And what if my hook output is localized? Now there is an English
>>> "remote:" in front of every line... Or even worse, what if the
>>> "remote:" string is localized in a future version of git, then I
>>> have no way of knowing how wide it is and cannot take measures to
>>> format my hook output so that it will look right.
>> Don't localize "remote:"? Or pick a shorter translation?
>>
>> If its really a problem, maybe "remote: " prefix should turn into
>> something shorter and language agnostic, like "<< ". But thus far
>> we hadn't had to worry about it, since we didn't have translation
>> support in Git... (though yes, I see that is changing now).
>
> Is there any reason for why the "remote:" output needs to be echoed
> verbatim to the user instead of being passed through some filter.
>
> If not, then it could be treated as part of a protocol, parsed, and
> localized however the user wants.
>
> ">" isn't as language-agnostic as you might think, in a RTL language
> the arrow ends up facing the wrong way.
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