Subject: Re: How to run git-gui always in English?

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:45:38 -0400

Steffen Prohaska <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> >How can I switch msysgit's git-gui to English, independently of
> >the language selected for Windows? I recognized that git-gui
> >adjusts to the 'language selection' of Windows. How can I
> >disable this? I want git-gui to always display English. Nothing
> >else, never! I can't help people who use a different language
> >in the gui, because I'll not understand what they are talking
> >about and they'll not understand me.
> 
> And it's even worse. An error in the localization can completely
> break git-gui. Apparently the German localization included in
> msysgit's Git-1.5.3-preview20071019.exe _is_ broken (see
> attached png).
> 
> Shouldn't the localization code be a bit more fault tolerant?

Yes.  This is a possible workaround:

>>From 410aa617e7ca8240500e90f0b0389bde7b7b40aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shawn O. Pearce <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:44:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: Protect against bad translation strings

If a translation string uses a format character we don't have an
argument for then it may throw an error when we attempt to format
the translation.  In this case switch back to the default format
that comes with the program (aka the English translation).

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <[email-masked]>
---
 git-gui.sh |   15 +++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 38c6e59..a7227ac 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -88,13 +88,20 @@ if {![catch {set _verbose $env(GITGUI_VERBOSE)}]} {
 
 package require msgcat
 
-proc mc {fmt args} {
-	set fmt [::msgcat::mc $fmt]
+proc _mc_trim {fmt} {
 	set cmk [string first @@ $fmt]
 	if {$cmk > 0} {
-		set fmt [string range $fmt 0 [expr {$cmk - 1}]]
+		return [string range $fmt 0 [expr {$cmk - 1}]]
 	}
-	return [eval [list format $fmt] $args]
+	return $fmt
+}
+
+proc mc {en_fmt args} {
+	set fmt [_mc_trim [::msgcat::mc $en_fmt]]
+	if {[catch {set msg [eval [list format $fmt] $args]} err]} {
+		set msg [eval [list format [_mc_trim $en_fmt]] $args]
+	}
+	return $msg
 }
 
 proc strcat {args} {
-- 
1.5.3.4.1324.ga7925

-- 
Shawn.