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#2428 Language idiomatics in the *.po-files in the Trunk
Hello all,
I have looked at "Swedish.po" Revision 4890 here:
http://winmerge.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/winmerge/trunk/Src/Languages/Swedish.po?view=log
and seen that there are a few things there that could maybe be changed in the
English translation
(and one on line 1749 for the Swedish translation):
1) line 314 "Config" to "Configuration"
2) line 427 "Public License" to "General Public License"
3) line 1324 "wrap" to "wrap at"
4) line 1407 "CheckIn" and "checkout" to "Check in" and "Check out"
5) line 1662 "to" to "in"
6) line 1749 "rad" to "vad"
(a Swedish typo id est "line" instead of "what")
7) line 2102 "help" to "Help"
8) line 3061-3062 "Public license" to "General Public License"
9) line 4088 "to" to "with" or "in"
10) line 4103 "to" to "with" or "in"
11) line 4619 "to" to "in"
12) line 5346 "Bokml" to "Bokmal" or "Bokmål"
(old Norwegian writing language
that is older than "Nynorsk" that is modern Norwegian)
13) line 5800-5808 id est
"
5800 #: Merge.rc:2692
5801 #, c-format
5802 msgid "Macintosh "
5803 msgstr "Macintosh Centraleuropeisk"
5804
5805 #: Merge.rc:2693
5806 #, c-format
5807 msgid "Macintosh Central Europe"
5808 msgstr "Macintosh Isländsk"
"
where line 5802 should be "Macintosh Icelandic" or "Macintosh Central Europe"
and not "Macintosh ",since line 5802 and line 5806 seems to have switched places and been abbreviated
14) line 6293 "one file only needs the extension" to
"only one file needs to have the extension"
(move order and clarification)
15) line 6351 "public license" to "General Public License"
16) line 6434 "msgid "Display all moved blacks" to
"msgid "Display all moved blocks"
Obviously all of these changes (except the one on line 1749) if they are applied
will need to be applied to all *.po-languages in the Trunk id est here:
http://winmerge.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/winmerge/trunk/Src/Languages/
Best wishes,
Hans Eriksson
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It is not very easy to say about these without any real context in where these strings are. But I know giving that context textually here is not easy either.
After quick look:
1) sounds correct
2) , 8) & 15 likewise
4) checkin and checkout are technical terms/commands generally used with version control. So I'm not sure.
12) I trust you here
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Well Kimmov,
Here are a few links on Bokmål:
1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language
2)
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/nrr.htm
3)
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nob
4)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Norwlang.html
5)
http://ftp.unesco.org/xtrans/stat/xTransStat.a?HL1=UDC&HL2=SL&VL1=-&c=&l=&sl=NOB&udc=
,so in short "Bokmål" is better to use than "Bokmal" or "Bokmaal"...
As to the real context id est what these 16 strings are and what they should be
I think I have made reasonable assumptions,
but then I am not a English native speaker nor a developer...
Best wishes,
Hans Eriksson
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Looking at current .rc and pot files (r5004).
So the (1) is about menuitem only visible in debug builds. I won't change that. If somebody else has energy, go ahead.
(2) seems to be "&GNU Public License..." in POT file? Won't change that. Same goes for (8) and (15).
(16) is a typo I fixed to SVN:
Completed: At revision: 5005
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Well Kimmov,
I think 2) , 8) and 15) are important since there are
several other GNU licences as you can see for example here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
id est "GNU Lesser General Public License" and
"GNU Affero General Public License" besides
"GNU General Public License"...
Best wishes,
Hans Eriksson
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I don't really think there can be any confusion about WinMerge license.
But you are correct that we should use the exact name in those couple of places.
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I've committed the license name fix to SVN trunk:
Completed: At revision: 5029
(Merge.rc and English.pot only)
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> I've committed the license name fix to SVN trunk:
You had a small typo in your commit:
Index: Merge.rc
--- Merge.rc (revision 5030)
+++ Merge.rc (working copy)
@@ -2671,7 +2671,7 @@
BEGIN
ID_HELP_CONTENTS "Opens the WinMerge help\nWinMerge Help"
ID_HELP_GETCONFIG "Outputs current WinMerge version info and configuration to text file"
- ID_HELP_GNULICENSE "Display the GNU Genral Public License"
+ ID_HELP_GNULICENSE "Display the GNU General Public License"
IDS_PRIVATEBUILD_FMT "Private Build: %1"
ID_HELP_RELEASENOTES "Opens the release notes document\nRelease Notes"
ID_HELP_TRANSLATIONS "Opens the translations website\nTranslations"
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And I even triple-checked it! Oh well. Can you commit that fix as you already have it?
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> Can you commit that fix as you already have it?
Yes, no problem.
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> Can you commit that fix as you already have it?
Committed to SVN (In Revision 5031)...
Hmm. What is status here? If any of these are still relevant they should be committed in next couple of weeks to get into 2.12 release.
Closing this as apparently there are no further interest..