Re: Italian translation for the upcoming release of Octave 4.2

[Luca Manzari]

On 10/10/2016 11:14 AM, Marco Caliari wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Eugenio Gianniti wrote:
>
> > On 06/10/2016 18:31, Andreas Weber wrote:
> > > Am 06.10.2016 um 10:18 schrieb Eugenio Gianniti:
> > > > On 06/10/2016 08:42, Marco Caliari wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Andreas Weber wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Dear Eugenio and Massimiliano.
> > > > > > As far as I can see both of you were involved in translating the
> > > > > > Octave
> > > > > > GUI for the 4.0 release. Are you interested in doing this also for
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > 4.2 release? As far as I can see there are 99 strings left which
> > > > > > should
> > > > > > be updated.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you,
> > > > > > --Andy
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear Andy, Massimiliano and Eugenio,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm Italian, too. And two students of GSOC ans SOCIS are Italian, too.
> > > > > May we help you?
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Marco
> > > >
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > I will be happy to help.
> > > > I haven't contributed for a while: should I clone the development
> > > > repository to create the patch or is there a release candidate to
> > > > work on?
> > >
> > > Dear Marco and Eugenio,
> > > thank you for offering help. I've uploaded the latest it_IT.ts to
> > >
> > > http://josoansi.de/files/it_IT.ts
> > >
> > > You should use linguist-qt4 (or perhaps -qt5) to open the file and add
> > > the translations. Many items are in the "unfinished" state so I guess
> > > they need a review and should then be marked as finished (green check
> > > symbol).
> > >
> > > I don't know what would be the best way to split the work or if one of
> > > you makes the translation and the other makes the review.
> > >
> > > Thank you, Andy
> >
> > Dear Andy and Marco,
> >
> > I went through all the unfinished translations and filled them in.
> > I also left some comments here and there, which boil down to:
> >
> >  1. In at least two "contexts" (following Linguist's wording) B, I, and
> > U for bold, italic, and underlined have been literally translated to the
> > initial of the corresponding Italian word. Whilst in one case this is
> > ok, as there is also a balloon showing the whole word, in the other
> > there is only the single letter. I have been using English for my
> > operating system for years now, but I remember that when I used Italian
> > icons always showed B, I, and U, thus this choice might be more
> > intuitive. Anyway, someone with a closer experience with interfaces
> > localized in Italian is better suited for this choice.
> >
> >  2. I was stuck with "top-level symbols", I could not think of anything
> > reasonable except for leaving "top-level" in English.
> >
> > Let me know if I can provide further help.
>
> Dear all, I gave a short look and found the following:
>
> 1) Nostra l'Esploratore di Risorse
> 2) Mostre Guide &Indentazione
> 3) Font translated as "Stile di carattere". I think font should be
> translated as Carattere.
> 4) all accented letters are displayed as ??.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco

Dear Marco and Eugenio,

What if "top-level symbols" were to be translated as "simboli di primo 
livello"? Just like "top-level domains" is translated as "domini di 
primo livello".

I think this preserves the meaning of the English expression, and is 
still perfectly understandable by an Italian user.

Just my 0.02$, and apologies if I did not join the translation process 
earlier! Will definitely contribute from now on :)

/Luca