From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:02:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] WIP: begin to translate git with gettext Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 17:02, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 16:40, Jeff Epler wrote: >> The amount of work to mark all the source files and then to keep the >> marks up to date should not be underestimated--and that's just the work >> to enable translators to localize the software.  It is important to >> gauge the interest in the git community in actually doing this work. > > It's also something you shouldn't overestimate. I've been involved in > internationalizing several projects that were previously English-only. > > The work of making things translatable can be done incrementally. You > also don't have to get everything right the first time, the current > proof of concept translation of `git status` for instance suffers from > numerous problems, but it's still better than nothing. > > It can be used as-is and then incrementally improved by arranging the > strings more intelligently in the future. I did some work on this in my branch: http://github.com/avar/git/compare/master...topic/git-gettext Fixed up the Makefile rules a bit, added appropriate gitignores, and added a work in progress po/is.po. Still have to go through the gettext manual to figure out how to integrate this with our shellscripts.