[Gaim-i18n] Re: Bad language in Gaim

[Bjoern V. <bj...@cs...>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> If you take the approach of "I'll translate everything (often literally=
)
> without understanding it", you're going to end up with a bad translatio=
n
> that results in user complaints. It's entirely reasonable for us (and
> users) to expect that translators fully understand what they're
> translating.
>  =20
Richard, you say that translators should fully understand what they're=20
translating. What do you expect from us?

Let's take a test. Translators and developers can answer. I'm especially =

interested if developers understand all of their messages. My personal=20
experience (I'm a software developer too - but not in instance messaging =

area) is that most developers in large software projects don't perfectly =

understand all parts of the software. Normally comments should help to=20
understand difficult parts of code. I personally often miss comments for =

difficult to understand comments. Gettext is able to display translation =

comments in the .po files.

This is now a long discussion. We talked about the meaning of some=20
difficult strings. Why doesn't someone with write access save this=20
explanations in form of code-comments?

The survey:
Hint: It's allowed to look into the code. But none of the strings has=20
comments in code! This makes the survery interesting! Please answer in=20
English so that others in the list can verify the answers.

1) What means "you can see the butterflies mating" in src/gtkaccount.c:12=
97?

   Answer:=20

2) Why is Syd Logan a "lazy bum" in AUTHORS and in src/gtkdialogs.c:100?

   Answer:=20

3) What is a "TOC host" in src/protocols/toc/toc.c?

   Answer:=20

4) What does "SSL Handshake Failed" in src/protocols/irc/irc.c:432 and sr=
c/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:451 mean?

   Answer:=20

5) What is a "Channel HMAC" in src/protocols/silc/chat.c?

   Answer:=20

6) What does ""You feel a disturbance in the force..." in plugins/psychic=
=2Ec means?

7) Why Ethan calls the psychic plugin a stalker plugin?

   "If we're going to support crappy stalker-enablement plugins, we shoul=
d at least make an effort to ensure that they don't require C99."

   (from  svn log plugins/psychic.c)

   Answer:=20


Greetings, Bj=F6rn