From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail•com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>,
Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail•com>,
Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] blame: use different blame_date_width for different locale
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:01:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbu1ptsx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbnvvllx4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:40:23 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> This is not wrong per-se, but I am not sure if translators would
> understand that "years and months ago" may not be the longuest
> variant for their language and they are asked to use "89 seconds
> ago" if the translation of that is longer than the translation for
> "4 years, 11 months ago" in their language, with the given
> explanation.
What's with the 89? And the other semi-magic numbers? If we fear about
non-arabic number formatting, at least in French French the worst
offender may be quatre-vingt-quatorze ("four score and fourteen") or
quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ("four score and nineteen"), namely 94 or 99. But
I think it's improbable to get worded formatting here anyway. Or are
those the largest values with their respective granularity?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-22 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-18 8:44 [PATCH] blame: add correct paddings in time_buf for align Jiang Xin
2014-04-18 14:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-04-18 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-19 0:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-04-20 16:13 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] peroper align of datetime filed of git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-20 16:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bugfix: fix broken time_buf paddings for git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-20 20:28 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-04-20 16:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] blame: use different blame_date_width for different locale Jiang Xin
2014-04-20 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-21 6:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] peroper align of datetime filed of git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-21 6:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] bugfix: fix broken time_buf paddings for git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-21 6:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] blame: use a helper to get suitable blame_date_width Jiang Xin
2014-04-21 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-21 19:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 12:25 ` Jiang Xin
2014-04-22 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] peroper align of datetime filed of git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-22 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] bugfix: fix broken time_buf paddings for git-blame Jiang Xin
2014-04-22 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] blame: dynamic blame_date_width for different locales Jiang Xin
2014-04-22 10:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-04-22 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] blame: use different blame_date_width for different locale Jiang Xin
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