Re: [PATCH v4 02/73] gettext tests: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate unfriendly translator

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 18:52, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> [offtopic: why is Jakub on the CC list? -- I don't recall him saying much
> on this topic yet...]

I see that I screwed up my J-completion. I meant to include Jonathan,
not Jakub. Oops. Sorry for the spam Jakub.

>> The idea of the GETTEXT_POISON facility is to simulate a worst-case
>> translation, so that strings marked for translation that cause trouble
>> can be noticed and dealt with.
>
> I've never thought this was about a "worst-case translation".
>
> Isn't this about emitting all the strings marked for translation in a form
> significantly different from the original, in the hope that such an output
> would help us find messages that should never be marked for translation by
> triggering test failures? ÂI do not see any "worst-case", just different
> enough for the plumbing tests to break.
>
> IOW, I don't think this is about helping translators in l10n, but about
> helping coders in i18n department.

Yes, exactly.
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