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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] gtk: add translation support (v5)


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] gtk: add translation support (v5)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:10:54 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130105 Thunderbird/17.0.2

Am 20.02.2013 14:43, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> This includes a de_DE translation from Kevin Wolf and an it translation from
> Paolo Bonzini.
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> ---
> v1 -> v4
>  - Don't use '|| exit 1' with sub-invocation of make
>  - Actually include Kevin's translation
> v4 -> v5
>  - Update translations (Kevin and Paolo)
>  - Fix 'make update' for it.po
> ---
>  Makefile       |  3 +++
>  configure      |  4 +++-
>  po/Makefile    | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  po/de_DE.po    | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  po/it.po       | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  po/messages.po | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  ui/gtk.c       | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>  7 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 po/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 po/de_DE.po
>  create mode 100644 po/it.po
>  create mode 100644 po/messages.po

IIUC this uses the English texts as key for lookup of translations.
Experience shows that while that is most convenient for the English it
leads to grammatical mistakes in other languages due to text reuse in
wrong contexts. A prominent example is "Server" being translated as
"Kellner" (which is waiter) in some early Windows NT version. :) More
recent examples commonly found are ambiguities of, e.g., "Update" as
noun vs. imperative - happens if the same wording is used in a menu and
in some options dialog or status text. Similar for ing-forms translated
as noun vs. infinitive vs. first-person present.

Better would be to use unique alphanumeric identifiers (e.g.,
"Menu.File.Quit") and to have a regular translation file for en (or
whatever suitable as fallback).

Regards,
Andreas

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