From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] i18n of multi-line messages
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:20:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmxale9so.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX7bgjFz7mvTySPKhR24coqOeVVy8+CsKHVj8Q3LF_-5ww@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:14:20 +0100")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail•com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 00:55, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>
> Nice. Thanks for tackling this. I'll no doubt be submitting some of
> these myself once we start getting translations.
>
> This is not a regression, but note that something like this:
>
>> + fprintf(stderr, "%s%.*s\n", _("hint: "), (int)(np - cp), cp);
>
> Isn't going to cut it for RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic, since
> for them the "hint: " would effectively be at the end of the line.
>
> I think the easiest way to tackle that sort of thing is to just do:
>
> _("hint: %.*s\n")
>
> And have a TRANSLATORS comment indicating that the format string
> should be kept, but that translators can move around the "hint", GNU
> gettext also has a msgcheck feature to check that format strings are
> compatible in the translations.
Good point. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 23:55 [RFC/PATCH] i18n of multi-line messages Junio C Hamano
2011-12-22 0:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-22 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-12-22 17:07 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-22 6:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-22 7:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-22 7:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-22 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-22 8:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-22 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-23 6:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-23 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-22 10:40 ` Chris Packham
2011-12-22 11:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-22 21:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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