From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:31:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] gettext docs: add "Marking strings for translation" section in po/README
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 22:26, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.