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Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:32:17 +0200 |
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Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> According to Clytie Siddall on 10/24/2007 2:37 AM:
>>>
>>> 2.
>>>
>>> #: lib/gai_strerror.c:52
>>> msgid "Servname not supported for ai_socktype"
>>>
>>> "Servname" is ambiguous: "Service name" or "Server name"? You may well
>>> get inaccurate translations.
>>
>> Simon? This is your gnulib module.
>
> The string comes from glibc (sysdeps/posix/gai_strerror-strs.h). Maybe
> it could be solved upstream? I'm not sure what it should say, I think
> it should be "Service name".
You will find this string in every Unix that implements getaddrinfo.
It's kind of a standard now. "servname" and "ai_socktype" are actually
the names of the formal parameters in the original implementation.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file, Eric Blake, 2007/10/24
- Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/25
- Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file,
Andreas Schwab <=
- [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names., Micah Cowan, 2007/10/25
- Re: [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names., Eric Blake, 2007/10/25
- Re: [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names., Micah Cowan, 2007/10/25
- Re: [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names., Bruno Haible, 2007/10/25
- Re: [PATCH] Added note for translators to gai_strerror.c, so they don't translate param names., Karl Berry, 2007/10/26
- Re: quotation conventions, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/26