Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 14:47 schrieb David Roundy: > [...] > In general, I'm not convinced that internationalization is appropriate in a > tool like darcs.
I'm at least convinced that it is appropriate for ordinary text output like "What is the patch name?" but you suggested this, too. > We don't have internationalized programming languages Programming languages and tool software (like darcs) are different things. > (or do we? maybe I'm just being an ignorant american), I've heard that they had a Russian programming language in the USSR. :-) > and I'm not sure that for command-line tools it's beneficial for the > user-input side of things. Maybe, you're right. Even the otherwise nicely internationalized Subversion has uniform keybindings for all languages, although this leads to strange explainations of why certain bindings were chosen – "A)bort, C)ontinue, E)dit" is translated to "A)bbrechen, Weitermac)hen, E)ditieren". But nano at least understands "German keybindings" > Certainly it would be nice to have human-readable output text > internationalized, but I'd suspect that trying to translate the input to > darcs would do more harm than good. We have enough trouble with people not > understanding pull/unpull/unrecord/etc, without trying to translate them > into other languages. Translating the long flag names (--summary, etc) > would render online help confusing, and wouldn't gain much over just > translating their descriptions. I didn't mean to translate command line arguments. This is in fact *very* unusual. > Of the twelve single-character inputs to push, one is redundant with '?' > (which I didn't count among the twelve), three have no relationship to an > english word, one is 'p' for "PAGER", which is a posix standard environment > variable (and thus identical on all posix systems), and one has an english > mnemonic, but that word isn't used in the description of its meaning. So I > guess the real question is whether it's worth shuffling these around for > various languages. It would depend on how awkward you find 'y' and 'n' > (the two most commonly used options). Okay, I think you convinced me. :-) > [...] Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
