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Junio C Hamano	9b9f46f5c1	t0204: clarify the "observe undefined behaviour" test ... This test asks for an impossible conversion to the system by preparing an UTF-8 translation with characters that cannot be expressed in ISO-8859-1, and then asking the message shown in ISO-8859-1. Even though the behaviour against such a request is undefined, it may be interesting to see what the system does, and the purpose of this test is to see if there are platforms that exhibit behaviour that we haven't seen. The original recognized two known modes of behaviour: - the key used to query the message catalog ("TEST: Old English Runes"), saying "I cannot do that i18n". - impossible characters replaced with ASCII "?", saying "I punt". but they were treated totally differently. The test simply issued an informational message "Your system punts on this one" for the first error mode, while it diagnosed the latter as "Your system is good; you pass!". It turns out that Mac OS X exhibits a third mode of error behaviour, to spew out the raw value stored in the message catalog. The test diagnosed this behaviour as "broken", but it is merely trying to do its best to respond to an impossible request by saying "I punt" in a way that is slightly different from the second one. Update the offending test to make it clear what is (and is not) being tested, update the code structure so that newly discovered error mode can easily be added to it later, and reword the message that comes from a failing case to clarify that it is not the system that is broken when it fails, but merely that the behaviour is not something we have seen. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	13 years ago
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason	5e9637c629	i18n: add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext ... Change the skeleton implementation of i18n in Git to one that can show localized strings to users for our C, Shell and Perl programs using either GNU libintl or the Solaris gettext implementation. This new internationalization support is enabled by default. If gettext isn't available, or if Git is compiled with NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease, Git falls back on its current behavior of showing interface messages in English. When using the autoconf script we'll auto-detect if the gettext libraries are installed and act appropriately. This change is somewhat large because as well as adding a C, Shell and Perl i18n interface we're adding a lot of tests for them, and for those tests to work we need a skeleton PO file to actually test translations. A minimal Icelandic translation is included for this purpose. Icelandic includes multi-byte characters which makes it easy to test various edge cases, and it's a language I happen to understand. The rest of the commit message goes into detail about various sub-parts of this commit. = Installation Gettext .mo files will be installed and looked for in the standard $(prefix)/share/locale path. GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR can also be set to override that, but that's only intended to be used to test Git itself. = Perl Perl code that's to be localized should use the new Git::I18n module. It imports a __ function into the caller's package by default. Instead of using the high level Locale::TextDomain interface I've opted to use the low-level (equivalent to the C interface) Locale::Messages module, which Locale::TextDomain itself uses. Locale::TextDomain does a lot of redundant work we don't need, and some of it would potentially introduce bugs. It tries to set the $TEXTDOMAIN based on package of the caller, and has its own hardcoded paths where it'll search for messages. I found it easier just to completely avoid it rather than try to circumvent its behavior. In any case, this is an issue wholly internal Git::I18N. Its guts can be changed later if that's deemed necessary. See <AANLkTilYD_NyIZMyj9dHtVk-ylVBfvyxpCC7982LWnVd@mail.gmail.com> for a further elaboration on this topic. = Shell Shell code that's to be localized should use the git-sh-i18n library. It's basically just a wrapper for the system's gettext.sh. If gettext.sh isn't available we'll fall back on gettext(1) if it's available. The latter is available without the former on Solaris, which has its own non-GNU gettext implementation. We also need to emulate eval_gettext() there. If neither are present we'll use a dumb printf(1) fall-through wrapper. = About libcharset.h and langinfo.h We use libcharset to query the character set of the current locale if it's available. I.e. we'll use it instead of nl_langinfo if HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H is set. The GNU gettext manual recommends using langinfo.h's nl_langinfo(CODESET) to acquire the current character set, but on systems that have libcharset.h's locale_charset() using the latter is either saner, or the only option on those systems. GNU and Solaris have a nl_langinfo(CODESET), FreeBSD can use either, but MinGW and some others need to use libcharset.h's locale_charset() instead. =Credits This patch is based on work by Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net> who did the initial Makefile / C work, and a lot of comments from the Git mailing list, including Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Narebski, Johannes Sixt, Erik Faye-Lund, Peter Krefting, Junio C Hamano, Thomas Rast and others. [jc: squashed a small Makefile fix from Ramsay] Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	14 years ago