Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:08, Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > It would definitely not be fine to break *git*. You need to make sure no
> > part of git itself or anything distributed with it (gitk, git gui, gitweb,
> > things in contrib) is looking for any string that might be broken by
> > translating.
>
> Of course internal breakage, i.e. git-foo parsing the output from
> git-bar breaking under non-English is unacceptable. I meant that
> external tools now running under some non-English locale may start
> breaking if they're parsing the output and assuming English. The
> remedy for that is easy though, just prefix the calls to git with
> LC_ALL=C.
And how exactly do you expect us to go back in history and prefix all
invocations of git in all scripts with LC_ALL=C?
Porcelain such as git-status could be changed, but then there's not
that much of it anyway. IMHO a set of standard documentation in each
language would be more useful.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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