Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> For what it's worth I agree with you and disagree with Eric here and
> Junio in the "[PATCH 03/21] i18n: advice: internationalize message for
> conflicts" thread.
>
> Of course there's a trade-off in source code verbosity when you have
> to change every occurance of (pseudocode):
>
> "our %s failed" # %s can be revert or merge
>
> to:
>
> if (action == "merge")
> gettext("our merge failed")
> elsif (action == "revert")
> gettext("our revert failed")
>
> But forcing the translator to turn every such occurrence that flows
> naturally in English into "the '%s' command failed" leads to a worse
> translation.
>
> For example, if I ever get around to doing the Icelandic translation
> which I've had on my backlog I might translate something like this:
> ...
> I.e. even though you might be running "git merge" or "git revert" the
> UI is talking about those terms in the translated using native terms
> for the action of merging or reverting, but referring to the literal
> command names in English.
> ...
> It just doesn't flow as well, and leads to a more verbose translation.
OK. I couldn't judge your example in Icelandic, but I have enough
trust in you to believe your conclusion ;-).
> Now instead of referring to the translated verb I'd already
> established I have to just refer to literal command names.
>
> Both this change and the change you submitted in
> <1463585274-9027-4-git-send-email-vascomalmeida@xxxxxxx> and Junio
> didn't like in <xmqqd1ojqciz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> are
> actual examples of cases where if I was (finally getting of my ass to)
> doing the Icelandic translation I'd take advantage of this.
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