5b34dd08d0
i18n: expose substitution hint chars in functions and macros to
translators
For example (based on builtin/commit.c and shortened): the "--author"
option takes a name. In source this can be represented as:
OPT_STRING(0, "author", &force_author, N_("author"), N_("override author")),
When the command is run with "-h" (short help) option (git commit -h),
the above definition is displayed as:
--[no-]author <author> override author
Git does not use translated option names so the first part of the
above, "--[no-]author", is given as-is (it is based on the 2nd
argument of OPT_STRING). However the string "author" in the pair of
"<>", and the explanation "override author for commit" may be
translated into user's language.
The user's language may use a convention to mark a replaceable part of
the command line (called a "placeholder string") differently from
enclosing it inside a pair of "<>", but the implementation in
parse-options.c hardcodes "<%s>".
Allow translators to specify the presentation of a placeholder string
for their languages by overriding the "<%s>".
In case the translator's writing system is sufficiently different than
Latin the "<>" characters can be substituted by an empty string thus
effectively skipping them in the output. For example languages with
uppercase versions of characters can use that to deliniate
replaceability.
Alternatively a translator can decide to use characters that are
visually close to "<>" but are not interpreted by the shell.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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