Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hint for translators for y/n reply.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 20:02:00 -0800

Jiang Xin <[email-masked]> writes:

> 2015-02-28 23:39 GMT+08:00 Jean-Noel Avila <[email-masked]>:
>> Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  builtin/clean.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
>> index 7e7fdcf..2c98661 100644
>> --- a/builtin/clean.c
>> +++ b/builtin/clean.c
>> @@ -754,6 +754,9 @@ static int ask_each_cmd(void)
>>                 /* Ctrl-D should stop removing files */
>>                 if (!eof) {
>>                         qname = quote_path_relative(item->string, NULL, &buf);
>> +                       /*TRANSLATORS: Make sure to include [Y] and [n] in your
>> +                       translation. The program will only accept English input
>> +                       at this point. */

A comment "We will accept only y, Y, Ye, YE,... as 'affirmative'" in
the code to translators will not help the end users at all, so make
it a single liner like this:

	/* TRANSLATORS: make sure to keep [y/N] as-is */

Make sure you have SP after slash-asterisk.

>>                         printf(_("remove %s? "), qname);
>
> Yes, it may confuse.  In order to let the translators notice this and update,
> you'd better change the code like this:
>
>         printf(_("remove %s [y/N]? "), qname);

A very good suggestion.  The code that follows this part treats an
empty input and a random non-empty input that does not head-match
"yes" as "please do not remove"; upcasing N is a good visual hint
that that "no" is the default.

Thanks.