From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:55:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Git sideband hook output
Message-ID: <4C12B0D0.9000805@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikONJoDiyxmcmdG8zZkTCLbqXlXhrASae7rAreN@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 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.

Also seconded.