Re: [PATCH 3/5] gettext docs: the gettext.h C interface

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

+   - _()
+
+    Mark and translate a string. E.g.:
+
+        printf(_("HEAD is now at %s"), hex);
+
+   - N_()
+
+    A no-op pass-through macro for marking strings inside static
+    initializations, e.g.:
+        
+        static const char *reset_type_names[] = {
+            N_("mixed"), N_("soft"), N_("hard"), N_("merge"), N_("keep"), NULL
+        };
+        
+    And then, later:
+
+        die(_("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository"),
+               _(reset_type_names[reset_type]));

I do not think this is a very good example.  Unless we are doing l10n of
option names, a Portuguese won't be typing "git reset --misto", so there
is no point in invoking _(reset_type_names[]) to begin with, and there is
no need to mark mixed/soft/hard/... for translation.

And we won't be doing l10n of option names or subcommand names, I hope ;-).