René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes:
> Am 02.08.2018 um 22:01 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>>
>> Straying sideways into a tangent, but do we know if any locale wants
>> to use something other than "<>" as an enclosing braket around a
>> placeholder?
>
> Bulgarian seems to use capitals instead; here are some examples found
> with git grep -A1 'msgid "<' po/:
>
> po/bg.po:msgid "<remote>"
> po/bg.po-msgstr "ОТДАЛЕЧЕНО_ХРАНИЛИЩЕ"
> ...
>>
>> Perhaps we should do _("<%s>") here? That way, the result would
>> hopefully be made consistent with
>>
>> N_("<refspec>[:<expect>]") with LIT-ARG-HELP
>>
>> which allows translator to use the bracket of the locale's choice.
I did not consider locales that do not use any kind of bracket, but
I guess _("<%s>") would work for them, too, in this context. When
the locale's convention is to upcase, for example, the arg-help text
that is not marked with PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP would be upcased,
and _("<%s>") in the usage_argh() can be translated to "%s", which
passes the translated (i.e. upcased) arg-help text through.
