Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:15:33AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: >> Mattias Engdegård <matti...@bredband.net> writes: >> >> > The conflict prompt is no longer localised, probably because of an >> > oversight. [...] >> Do we want the long options localised? If I run >> >> svn update --accept=mine-conflict >> >> the 'mine-conflict' is not localised. I don't think we want the command >> line and the prompt to be different. > > I agree. The menu options should mirror the --accept command line options. > Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the command line cannot be translated.
Hi Stefan. I assume you mean the command line is not translated as a matter of policy? Technically I see no reason why it cannot be translated. If the reason why we don't is so that scripts can be locale-independent, then it would still be possible to design a UI where the '--accept=X' takes a set of local-independent values for X (so that scripts can be locale-independent) and also a set of localized values for X (for command-line users). I'm not saying we should do this, as that's something for the translators team and the rest of the development community to decide as a group and I'm sure it's been discussed and decided before, I just want to clarify what we're saying here. In general I think the interactive parts should be localized as much as possible, and if that means we need to do something special to the command-line option processing to ensure the same options can be used both on the command line and interactively, then I think we should do whatever it takes. But I will leave the decision about how much to localize to people such as Mattias and you who have experience of non-English usage (which I don't). - Julian > So I think it is OK to have short menu option names in English and provide > long descriptions in the native language. > > Does that work for you, Mattias? Of course, if there is anything we're > doing in the code that makes translation harder than necessary, we need > to fix that. But in this particular case I believe there is nothing to fix.
