Re: [XBoard-devel] new developer release

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 11-02-2012 10:05, h.g. muller skrev:
> Btw, it seems that the German translation for the menu item / title
> for the Match Options dialog is wrong. It translates 'match' the same
> as 'game', which is confusing. Actually the item text 'Match...' used in
> the XBoad menu is already a bit confusing: XBoard knows a distinction
> between games, (old-style two-player) matches, and tournamnents.
> This dialog was called Match Options because it was introduced
> before XBoard could also do tournaments. In WinBoard, where it
> was implemented only later, it is indeed called 'Tournament...' in
> the menu.
>
> I don't know where translation bugs should be reported.

Normally the po-files will have a Language-Team entry in the file header 
with a contact address. In lack of that, there is always the 
Last-Translator entry.

However we should be aware that many translation errors are due to 
ambiguous original texts where the translators don't have enough context 
to properly select the right translation for their language.

We should learn from this, and provide comments for the translators 
about what is meant by "Match" when it is used in a translation unit 
without clarifying context.

This should also be done for others texts, most notably for the single 
letters "R", "G", "B", "D", and probably also for other texts.

> But if they are
> quite serious, like this one, I suppose we can alter the .po file
> ourselves.

Normally that would a bad idea for translations delivered from 
translationproject.org.