From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:26:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] gettext docs: add "Marking strings for translation" section in po/README
Message-ID: <7vmxrpgrqe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1284147353-18000-3-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> + - Don't mark everything for translation, only strings which will be
> +   read by humans (the porcelain interface) should be translated.
> +
> +   The output from Git's plumbing utilities will primarily be read by
> +   programs and would break scripts under non-C locales. These strings
> +   should not be translated.

Hmm, I had to re-read the above twice and then mentally annotate "would
break ... _if translated_" to make sense of the advice.  Perhaps other
people are much less dense than me?