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

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Dec 22, 2011, 17:07 UTC
Message-ID: <871urwsff6.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vmxale9so.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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

Note that your commit message in pu still says

     - append each line in the result to localization of the "hint: " prefix.

even though you now fixed that to be more general.

(It also has a very weird case of mixed indentation when I view it with 'git show':

        advise(_("Please rename %s to something else"), gostak);
            advise(_("so that we can avoid distimming %s unnecessarily."), doshes);

Apparently the first line is indented with a tab, and the second with 8 spaces.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch