Hello Neil, On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:06:18PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:53:56 +0200 > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -" Use exactly one of -i -l --gui or --explain;\n" > > > > +" Use exactly one of -i, -l. --gui or --explain;\n" > > > > > > The comma and fullstop are misplaced. Any one of those four options is > > > valid. The message string is correct. > > > > Yes, the full stop is my mistake. Usually (and you do this later in > > the po file, see below) listing options are separated by commas > > Options are optional - these are commands and trying to use them as > options will cause an error. I don't want users getting the impression > that -i is an option like -c.
Ok, this helps me translating.
> I'll add a comment somewhere in the next POT file.
Thanks.
> > , and
> > especially since the "or" indicates that this is a listing. Why are
> > the commas incorrect?
>
> Because of the fullstop - it changes the meaning of the sentence,
> dividing the four into two sets of two and giving the impression that
> the phrase means:
Yes, the full stop was completely my mistake. Even attempting to fix
errors sometimes introduces errors.
> [ -i | -l ] && [ --gui | --explain ]
>
> I deliberately left out the commas in this string. Maybe that was the
> right thing to do, maybe it wasn't.
Well, in German it definitly looks wrong. I am not a native english
speaker, so I cannot say for sure for english.
> The only issues to change in the POT file are those two spaces. Feel
> free to modify those in the updated de.po file.
I'd rather follow the standard procedure (less risky to introduce new
errors) that you provide the updated de.po with the fuzzy strings and
I send you the unfuzzied version.
> The rest of the issues in this bug report should be translated from the
> existing POT file and without extraneous punctuation please.
Well, punctuation differs from language to language; so I'll have to
see what is best in German. If you need a second opinion, I'll discuss
that on debian-l10n-german as well.
> See #425306 too.
>
> Closing this bug report now.
Wouldn't it make more sense to close the bug report when you upload a
new version with the fixes?
Greetings
Helge
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