Re: [PATCH 24/25] gettextize: git-status basic messages

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 20:28, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

quoted

The only change is the removal of two messages that didn't really
belong: _("#\t") and _("%-20s%s\n").

Hmm, isn't it better to let translators tweak the output format to fit
their constraints?  Especially 20 characters might not be enough to
hold the "deleted by them" et al messages in some language.

Maybe, but my current mode of operation is "do it really simple and
stupid now, solicit complaints later".

Eventually I'd rather just eliminate the need for tweaking stuff like
that by having some va_args function that spews out "16" for that
given a bunch of arguments, i.e. (pseudocode):

    int width = gimme_longest(
        _("both deleted:"),
        _("added by us:"),
        _("deleted by them:"),
        _("added by them:"),
        _("deleted by us:"),
        _("both added:"),
        _("both modified:")
    );

    char *fmt = concat("%-", width + 4, "s%s\n");
    printf(fmt, ...)