Re: [PATCH 2/5] gettext docs: add "Marking strings for translation" section in po/README
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 22:26, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> 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?
No, that "... if translated" wording is better.
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>