Re: translation help - Smolt

[Yaakov Nemoy]

2009/8/21 Jens Maucher <jensm.fedora(a)online.de&gt;:
>  Hi all,
>  I think "(Ja/Nein) J" is common, but what about things like
>  "(v)iew"?
>  In german i would say it could be translate with "Ansicht", but what is
>  with the 'v' in the brackets?
>  Should it be translate it like "(A)nsicht"?
>
>  In my Opinion it would be great if there were any guidelines in the
>  Fedora wiki, how to translate such expressions. 
My two cents, my fingers are hardwired a bit to using the shortcuts
that come from the Dutch translation, and it's very weird to switch to
an English setup. I think it's usually better to come up with
consistent shortcuts per language for internal consistency, which is
something that occurs in both Gnome and KDE already.

-Yaakov


>  Hedda Peters:
>  http://live.gnome.org/de/Uebersetzung
>  Sowas sollte es auch für Fedora geben damit gewissen Sachen einheitlich
>  übersetzt werden. Nicht das einer z.B. "Button" als "Schaltfläche",
> und
>  der andere mit "Knopf" übersetzt. Evtl. kannst du da ja was anleiern,
>  dein Englisch ist wesentlich besser als meines. ;-)
>
>
>  Regards
>  Jens
>
>  Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 21:01 -0500 schrieb Mike McGrath:
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Mike
> > >
> > > Will you answer the question from German team?
> > > I guess many of us including me feel the same way.
> > >
> >
> > Just so I'm clear.  What's common?  I'd be happy to alter smolt so it
> > follows the most common convention.  I'd assume it's like a:
> >
> > Do this?  (Yes/No) Y
> >
> > (Ja/Nein) J  vs  (Ja/Nein) Y
> >
> > Which is the most common?
> >
> >       -Mike
> >
> > > thanks
> > > noriko
> > >
> > >
> > > Hedda Peters さんは書きました:
> > > > Hi Noriko,
> > > >
> > > > we are a bit uncertain as to whether or not some shortcuts/hotkeys should
> be
> > > > translated in the Smolt package:
> > > >
> > > >
> https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/master/view/client/po/...
> > > >
> > > > Some shortcuts are indicated with an underscore, which we translated.
> Other
> > > > shortcuts are indicated with parenthesis (line 315 etc). Is there a
> > > > difference to the ones with underscore, should they be translated/adapted
> as
> > > > well? Where do they appear in the tool?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for you help Noriko!
> > > > Cheers, Hedda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > > Betreff: translation help
> > > > Datum: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:00:28 +0200
> > > > Von: Jens Maucher <jensm.fedora(a)online.de&gt;
> > > > Antwort an: Fedora Translation Project List
> <fedora-trans-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > > > An: Fedora Translation Project List <fedora-trans-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > > Is there a prescription how to translate things like
> > > >
> > > > (v)iew
> > > > Your choise (s/v/q/y/n)
> > > >
> > > > into german?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards
> > > > Jens
> > > >
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