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Unclear gettextized strings
From: |
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
Subject: |
Unclear gettextized strings |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:23:52 +0100 |
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Hello, all.
First of all, I'd like to say great thanks to Mario Blättermann and Yuri
Chornoivan who translated the recent gettext upload into German and
Ukrainian respectively. Especially Yuri. Few hours after I uploaded
tarball to translation project there was already a complete translation
into Ukrainian.
By examining these two translations and looking at errors in them, I've
found a bunch of unclear strings in original. I've already fixed the
most obvious ones directly. Here I attach the patch to change the
remaining ones. Could someone well versed with words and/or native
English speaker to check this.
I'd like to make a new upload at translation project ASAP to avoid more
translators getting into the traps.
I've updated uk.po and it will be included in upload so it should be
picked up by translation project. If someone wants it I can send it, not
attached here due to size reasons.
If someone (especially translators) find more unclear messages please
report, in preference with a patch
I'll update de.po if time permits.
Tricky points:
We use the word "key" several times to refer to the key that you press
but the same word also means a key in catalog and both Yuri and Mario
understood messages like "unknown key" in the second sense. I've
rephrased those somehow, now it should be clear.
APM engaged/disengaged seem to be difficult to understand. Anybody has a
better idea?
ACPI command contains options to put only some versions of ACPI into
EBDA. Previously it was saying "Expose only v1 tables" in the sense of
exposing symbols in ABI. Both translators interpreted it as "Show on the
screen".
zfsinfo gettext was pretty bad. I've changed it to use sentences instead
of state words but zfsinfo may still have problems.
--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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