Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Mixing English and a local language

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:52:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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     But it should not be per-command, but per-message, and
     should include all output that is not diagnostic and is not
     machine-parseable (e.g., what I mentioned above, request-pull
     output, etc). If it is the project's language, then the team
     members will need to know it anyway, so it should not be too big a
     burden to have a potentially different language there than in the
     diagnostic messages.

No matter what the project languages is, machine parseable part will
not be localized but fixed to "C" anyway, so I do not think it comes
into the picture.

My take on this is, if there is the project language, it should
apply to _everything_.  Please do not introduce any per-command,
per-message, per-anything mess.  Just set LANG/LC_ALL up and be done
with it.

And I think you justified why that is the right thing to do very
well in the second sentence in the above paragraph I quoted from
you.

You seem to be saying that diagnostic does not have to be in project
language, but I do not think it is the right thing to do.  The first
response to "Frotz does not work" is often "What do you exactly
mean?  How did you run Frotz?  What error message are you getting
from it?", and you do not want to get back the diagnostics in
Klingon.

By that line of reasoning, wouldn't all git developers be required to
set LANG=C? Fine by me as an English speaker, but I get the impression
that other developers are using the localization. I don't think there is
anything wrong with primarily working in your native language, but
making the effort to switch for communicating with teammates (either
when writing them emails, or using LANG=C when showing them output from
your terminal).

If the "switch to LANG=C" thing is a relatively rare thing, I don't see
a problem. The issue with the diffstat is that it is too easy to
accidentally send out a localized one.

-Peff