Re: [Question] Translation Dictionary

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2022, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1r0jskhr.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <11498572.Kui42GGras@cayenne>

Jean-Noël AVILA <avila.jn@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:15:24 CET Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I would even suggest that gitglossary(7) might ultimately be
>> > deprecated particularly on systems without 'man(1)'.
>> 
>
> I'd rather gitglossary and `git glossary` did not compete and they could share 
> their translations.
>
>
>> Yes, I think the entries in the "git help -w glossay" are good
>> things to have in the dictionary.  I thought there are folks who are
>> already translating our manual pages (perhaps with po4a if I recall
>> correctly but I may be misremembering)?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>
> Yes, there are. You can find the project at 
> https://github.com/jnavila/git-manpages-l10n
>
> The Portuguese is fully translated, gitglossary included.
>
> This makes me think that translating gitglossary should come first, in order to 
> set the standard for the other manpages.

Yup, and if we can come up with a way to mechanically share the list of items (i.e. what to include and not include in the glossary) and their translations between "git glossary" and "git help glossary", that would be great.

Thanks.