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Re: [PATCH] i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT defined

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2012, 09:24 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> So we need "MY_GETTEXT_IS_BROKEN" to decline the use of system gettext
> in addition to "NO_GETTEXT" to ask Git not to translate the messages. Is
> that correct?
I think yes.
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> If that is the case, should we do something like
>
>        LANG=C LC_ALL=C
>        export LANG LC_ALL
>
> in our shell scripts, when building for NO_GETTEXT target?

Just for the record: gettext here stays broken with LANG and LC_ALL set to C. But the locale-dependent formatting in C functions will change. Wont be a problem here, though. The named formatting is broken, too: strftime, for instance, always formats in C locale.

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Message 26 of 40 in “i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT defined”
  1. i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT definedAlex Riesen, Jan 17, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2012
  3. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2012
  4. i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT definedAlex Riesen, Jan 18, 2012
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 19, 2012
  6. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2012
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 18, 2012
  8. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2012
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 18, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederJan 19, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2012
  12. Johannes SixtJan 19, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2012
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 20, 2012
  15. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  16. git-sh-i18n: detect and avoid broken gettext(1) implementationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 20, 2012
  17. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2012
  19. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2012
  21. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  22. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2012
  23. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2012
  25. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2012
  26. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2012
  27. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2012
  28. add a Makefile switch to avoid gettext translation in shell scriptsAlex Riesen, Jan 19, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2012
  30. 1/2 git-sh-i18n: restructure the logic to compute gettext.sh schemeJunio C Hamano, Jan 23, 2012
  31. 2/2 add a Makefile switch to avoid gettext translation in shell scriptsJunio C Hamano, Jan 23, 2012
  32. Jonathan NiederJan 23, 2012
  33. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2012
  34. Jonathan NiederJan 23, 2012
  35. 3/2 i18n: do not use gettext.sh by default when NO_GETTEXT is setJonathan Nieder, Jan 24, 2012
  36. Alex RiesenJan 24, 2012
  37. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 24, 2012
  38. Alex RiesenJan 24, 2012
  39. Alex RiesenJan 24, 2012
  40. Junio C HamanoJan 24, 2012

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