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Re: ab/i18n (What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23))

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2011, 01:16 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> The commit message for the second one seems to have been mangled:
>
> 	i18n: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate translated messages unfriendly translator

Yeah, I think I was fooled by the header folding while fixing things up inside the mailbox.

> I still don't like the #-sign business in this commit.  Couldn't it
> be split into a separate patch, not to be applied until just before
> the strings in commit/tag/wt-status are marked for translation?
That might be a sensible thing to do.   Ævar what do you think?
> There is also a patch out there to make this use rot13, which I am
> somewhat fond of.  Unfortunately, it leaks (because it is not clear
> how long translated strings are supposed to last).

Yeah I would imagine it would leak. Also blindly running rot13 to turn %d into %q is probably not what you want.

> I'd be happy with renaming use_poison() to gettext_poison() or
> similar.  I suppose that is not urgent.

I would prefer to be able to merge the first handful to 'master' sooner rather than later to minimize the damage to in-flight topics, though.

Thanks.
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  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2011
  2. ab/i18n (What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23))Jonathan Nieder, Feb 23, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 25, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederFeb 26, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  12. Erik Faye-LundFeb 24, 2011
  13. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  16. Johan HerlandFeb 23, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  18. Johan HerlandFeb 24, 2011
  19. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  21. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  23. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  24. Erik Faye-LundFeb 24, 2011
  25. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  26. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  27. Johannes SchindelinFeb 25, 2011
  28. Kirill SmelkovFeb 25, 2011
  29. Johannes SchindelinFeb 25, 2011
  30. Kirill SmelkovFeb 25, 2011
  31. Johannes SchindelinFeb 25, 2011
  32. Kirill SmelkovFeb 26, 2011
  33. Kirill SmelkovFeb 26, 2011
  34. cross-compiling msys-1.0.dll, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)Johannes Schindelin, Feb 26, 2011
  35. Kirill SmelkovMar 12, 2011
  36. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2011
  37. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2011
  38. Kirill SmelkovMar 12, 2011
  39. Adding Beyond Compare as a merge tool, was: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)Sebastian Schuberth, Feb 26, 2011
  40. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2011
  41. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 26, 2011
  42. Chris PackhamFeb 27, 2011
  43. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2011
  44. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 27, 2011
  45. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 27, 2011
  46. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 27, 2011

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