Re: i18n: Avoid sentence puzzles

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2012, 11:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CUXSSvToPrx9aW5a76BV=g7OTrWLZ2MQ6xDTpDSLpPeA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201201301231.21090.schwarzerf@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> in order to enable translators to prepare proper translations,
> sentence puzzles have to be avoided. While it makes perfect sense for
> English, some languages may have to separate those words to sound or
> even be correct.
>
> The attached patch demonstrates a change to achive that.
> ...
> So my question would be: Is it considered worth it to extend the code
> for translators' and translations' sake? If so, I would be glad to
> help with that.

As a translator (though not git's because my time is limited and GUI apps have my priority), I completely agree and support this. There are other places where a sentence is broken down into many short phrases. It's hard for a translator to find a good translation in such cases.

I remember there was also a patch about "1 file vs 2 files" in diff summary, which was rejected because it would break scripts. I think grammar patches should be allowed at least for interactive use (i.e. either pager is on, or std{out,err} is tty).

-- 
Duy