Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > After this wonderful English and modesty lessons, I started thinking: > since Git is a worldwide spread software why it is not using gettext > to have its translations? It would not be a hard job because gettext > separates the job of translation from normal work flow with just minor > changes to inline message constants. Git uses gettext, but only for gitk and git-gui. The problem is that git is written in C (which can use gettext), Perl (which can use Locale::Maketext / Locale::Maketext::Gettext), but has also some commands that are written in (POSIX) shell script. The $"..." syntax for message localization is bash-ism, and additionally it is deprecated -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html