[Bug-tar] Bad localization

[Hendrik Maryns]

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Hi,

I have a Dutch (nl) version of Suse Linux.  If I invoke tar with a file
to which it has no permission, I get a line like the following:

/home> tar -cj -f backup-fh.bz2 hendrik/
tar: backup-fh.bz2: Kan niet open: Toegang geweigerd
tar: Fout is niet herstelbaar: er wordt nu afgesloten

This is not Dutch.  ‘Kan niet open’ should be ‘Kan niet openen’.

This seems to be caused because people wanted to be too smart, since a
bit later it says ‘Kan niet savedir’, which is as strange, but ‘savedir’
is not translated.  Maybe it should be ‘Kan savedir niet uitvoeren’.

I’d send in a patch if there were an obvious way to get to the source
files, but a few minutes of googling and browsing didn’t give me a file
with those strings.

Ah, there it is:
http://www.translationproject.org/PO-files/nl/tar-1.14.nl.po. Sending
this to them as well.

And there is the patch.  I’d have a lot more to change, I’ll contact the
Dutch l10n team.

Maybe a link from the official tar homepage there (well, to TP then)
would not be a bad idea?

Cheers, H.
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Hendrik Maryns
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--- /home/hendrik/Mijn downloads/tar-1.14.nl.po 2007-10-11 10:11:44.000000000 
+0200
+++ /home/hendrik/workspace/Vrijschrift/tar-1.14.nl.po  2007-10-11 
10:20:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
 #: src/misc.c:540 src/misc.c:549
 #, c-format
 msgid "%s: Cannot %s"
-msgstr "%s: Kan niet %s"
+msgstr "%s: Kan %s niet uitvoeren"
 
 #: src/misc.c:558
 #, c-format