Re: [PATCH v4 02/73] gettext tests: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate unfriendly translator
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- Feb 25, 2011, 19:50 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 18:52, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes: > > [offtopic: why is Jakub on the CC list? -- I don't recall him saying much > on this topic yet...]
I see that I screwed up my J-completion. I meant to include Jonathan, not Jakub. Oops. Sorry for the spam Jakub.
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>> The idea of the GETTEXT_POISON facility is to simulate a worst-case >> translation, so that strings marked for translation that cause trouble >> can be noticed and dealt with. > > I've never thought this was about a "worst-case translation". > > Isn't this about emitting all the strings marked for translation in a form > significantly different from the original, in the hope that such an output > would help us find messages that should never be marked for translation by > triggering test failures? I do not see any "worst-case", just different > enough for the plumbing tests to break. > > IOW, I don't think this is about helping translators in l10n, but about > helping coders in i18n department.
Yes, exactly.