From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:16:14 GMT Subject: Re: ab/i18n (What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)) Message-ID: <7vd3mi44gx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110223234828.GA7286@elie> Jonathan Nieder 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.