Re: [RFC/PATCH] i18n of multi-line messages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 22, 2011, 00:20 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 00:55, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Nice. Thanks for tackling this. I'll no doubt be submitting some of
> these myself once we start getting translations.
>
> This is not a regression, but note that something like this:
>
>> +               fprintf(stderr, "%s%.*s\n", _("hint: "), (int)(np - cp), cp);
>
> Isn't going to cut it for RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic, since
> for them the "hint: " would effectively be at the end of the line.
>
> I think the easiest way to tackle that sort of thing is to just do:
>
>     _("hint: %.*s\n")
>
> And have a TRANSLATORS comment indicating that the format string
> should be kept, but that translators can move around the "hint", GNU
> gettext also has a msgcheck feature to check that format strings are
> compatible in the translations.

Good point. Thanks.