Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The reason would become clear once you think what string you are >> feeding eval_gettext with if you do not escape. The translators >> translate a fixed string (possibly with placeholders) to a fixed >> translated string (possibly with placeholders). >> >> eval_gettext "Stray $dotest directory found. ..." >> >> would allow the shell to expand $dotest before eval_gettext sees it, >> which would mean the string is no longer a constant. > > Ah. I was scratching my head wondering why $dotest needed to be > translated (it's just a path). "Stray" and "directory found" are to be translated. You can have infinite possibilities to $dotest that is computed at runtime, so that should be kept as a variable, untranslated in the message template. -- 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