Am 02.08.2018 um 22:01 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes:
>
>> Am 02.08.2018 um 18:54 schrieb Jeff King:
>>> PS I actually would have made the rule simply "does it begin with a
>>> '<'", which seems simpler still. If people accidentally write "<foo",
>>> forgetting to close their brackets, that is a bug under both the
>>> old and new behavior (just with slightly different outcomes).
>>
>> Good point.
>
> Straying sideways into a tangent, but do we know if any locale wants
> to use something other than "<>" as an enclosing braket around a
> placeholder?
Bulgarian seems to use capitals instead; here are some examples found
with git grep -A1 'msgid "<' po/:
po/bg.po:msgid "<remote>"
po/bg.po-msgstr "ОТДАЛЕЧЕНО_ХРАНИЛИЩЕ"
--
po/bg.po:msgid "<branch>"
po/bg.po-msgstr "КЛОН"
--
po/bg.po:msgid "<subdirectory>/"
po/bg.po-msgstr "ПОДДИРЕКТОРИЯ/"
--
po/bg.po:msgid "<n>[,<base>]"
po/bg.po-msgstr "БРОЙ[,БАЗА]"
> This arg-help text, for example,
>
> N_("refspec") without LIT-ARG-HELP
>
> would be irritating for such a locale's translator, who cannot
> defeat the "<>" that is hardcoded and not inside _()
>
> s = literal ? "%s" : "<%s>";
>
> that appear in parse-options.c::usage_argh().
>
> Perhaps we should do _("<%s>") here? That way, the result would
> hopefully be made consistent with
>
> N_("<refspec>[:<expect>]") with LIT-ARG-HELP
>
> which allows translator to use the bracket of the locale's choice.
@Alexander: Would that help you?
René
