Re: Gettext real issues

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:11:09 -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@reloco.com.ar> wrote:

> You have the power. You can just set LC_MESSAGES to whatever you feel like.

Well, I'm not sure how GNU gettext is going to work in Windows
environments. Certainly I'm not going to switch my Windows language
environment from Spanish. But I don't want Subversion in Spanish just
because my lang is set to it.

And I even less understand how do you propose for my browser to say to a
subversion repository server that I don't want to browse the repository in
Spanish, but still navigate the web with "Accept-Language: es"...

As far as I can see (correct me if I'm wrong, I plainly admit I don't
understand some of the issues because I have no gettext experience at
all), you seem to be forcing me to have Subversion in my environment's
language... Am I wrong?

If I'm right, a client-based answer seems better: I can just delete
es.po or overwrite it with en.po and get happily along. But server-based
answers are plainly *bad* if I don't have the opportunity to say to the
server that I don't want Spanish *for Subversion* only.

> The
> need for translations is not in discussion.

Of course not, as long as users can easily disable it.

                                                           /L/e/k/t/u

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