From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:41 GMT
Subject: Translating error messages in Git (was: Re: [PATCH v3] git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan)
Message-ID: <m3d3ywjq8p.fsf_-_@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <55bacdd31003220714qa9fb915k9fe152019b4d88b4@mail.gmail.com>

Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com> writes:

> After this wonderful English and modesty lessons, I started thinking:
> since Git is a worldwide spread software why it is not using gettext
> to have its translations?  It would not be a hard job because gettext
> separates the job of translation from normal work flow with just minor
> changes to inline message constants.

Git uses gettext, but only for gitk and git-gui.

The problem is that git is written in C (which can use gettext), Perl
(which can use Locale::Maketext / Locale::Maketext::Gettext), but has
also some commands that are written in (POSIX) shell script.  The
$"..." syntax for message localization is bash-ism, and additionally
it is deprecated

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git