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Re: [PATCH 2/5] gettext docs: add "Marking strings for translation" section in po/README

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:32

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:
+ - Don't mark everything for translation, only strings which will be
+   read by humans (the porcelain interface) should be translated.
+
+   The output from Git's plumbing utilities will primarily be read by
+   programs and would break scripts under non-C locales. These strings
+   should not be translated.
Hmm, I had to re-read the above twice and then mentally annotate "would
break ... _if translated_" to make sense of the advice.  Perhaps other
people are much less dense than me?
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