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Re: od --help: many translations provide invalid option advice
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Erwin Poeze |
Subject: |
Re: od --help: many translations provide invalid option advice |
Date: |
Sun, 22 May 2011 09:48:27 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi Jim,
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:19:33PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> As spotted in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/784758
> fr.po makes "od --help" print invalid advice in French locales.
> Unfortunately, it's not just the short-name for the --strings option
> and it's not just the French locale that are affected.
>
> This shows 12 locales that are afflicted:
>
> [...]
>
> Is there some way that I (as upstream coreutils maintainer)
> can perform the global substitutions to correct all of those .po files?
> Of course, it would be better to have individual translation teams
> correct the modified translatable parts, too, but considering
> the percent-translated figures for some locales, I'd rather at least
> perform the minimal fix across the board.
>
> Here are similar changes:
>
> - -b same as -t oC, select octal bytes\n\
> + -b same as -t o1, select octal bytes\n\
>
> - -l same as -t d4, select decimal longs\n\
> + -l same as -t dL, select decimal longs\n\
>
> And here are some additions:
>
> + -s same as -t d2, select decimal 2-byte units\n\
> + -x same as -t x2, select hexadecimal 2-byte units\n\
How about the following approach. You send a mail to the translators assigned
the coreutils
with a request to change the strings you point out. If you do not get a reponse
in let say
2 weeks you can send me the modified po files and I'll replace the current
ones. Would that
work for you?
--
Erwin Poeze
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