On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 14:29, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Git can speak Chinese now. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@xxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> po/zh_cn.po | 3568 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 个文件被修改, 3568 处添加(+), 0 处删除(-) >>> create mode 100644 po/zh_cn.po >> >> I do not mind Chinese in the patch text (i.e. below), but I would have >> preferred the above not to be in Chinese, which I do not read---I can >> guess what 文件, 添加 and 删除 are, and I can also guess that 个 and 处 >> are units of counting, but nevertheless... > > Such a stat line would be wonderful in an all-Chinese environment > though. I'm thinking perhaps it's a good idea to support > core.officialLocale (or workingLanguage). Commands that produce stuff > for outside like format-patch would prefer core.exchangeLanguage over > $LANG. Commands in blurred zone can learn --official option to ignore > $LANG. > > We can then have a shared config with core.officialLocale = > en_US.UTF-8 somewhere in git.git. Developers of multi-nation companies > would be pleased, I think. For now we can also avoid this whole issue and just declare that anything that's used for interchange or permanently stored (git-format-patch output, reflogs, merge commit messages etc.) will be in English. -- 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