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

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?

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 22:26, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

+ - 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?

No, that "... if translated" wording is better.