Re: gettext, multiple Preferred languages, and English

From: Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net>
Date: Apr 21, 2019, 13:27 UTC
Message-ID: <ffac5d4b-190c-16d6-497c-4b0f1f12115c@apjanke.net>
In-Reply-To: <bd5ee770-a213-b663-208c-c9980a738fe9@talktalk.net>

On 4/21/19 8:59 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:

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> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 21/04/2019 12:08, Andrew Janke wrote:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/d001a2b5-57c3-1eb3-70fd-679919bb2eb6@apjanke.net/
> 
>> I don't think it would even have
>> to be actively maintained, because for new message strings that aren't
>> included in the .po file, it would fall back to the non-translated input
>> strings, which are in English anyway, which is the desired behavior.
> Given the above comment, could the en.po file
> (https://github.com/apjanke/git/blob/english-dummy-translation/po/en.po)
> be some very very short version with only one 'translated' string?

Yes, I believe so. I only provided a full translation file because it was trivial for me to create using the "msginit" instructions I found in po/README. Since all the translations are just identity relationships, I believe that is effectively the same as their not being there in the first place.

I tested your approach locally, and it seems to work for me.

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> This
> may be a way-off comment, but if it could be such a simple maintenance
> free file then that sounds sensible.
> 
> also adding in Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>, the coordinator for
> extra comment.
> 
> Philip