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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Misleading (Nonsense) message in
From:       Marek Laane <bald () smail ! ee>
Date:       2009-11-30 22:58:03
Message-ID: 200912010058.03493.bald () smail ! ee
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teisipäev, 01. detsember 2009 00:32:25 kirjutas Burkhard Lück:
> Hi translators,
> 
> Frederik Schwarzer noticed a misleading/nonsense msssage in this file:
> kdeplasma-addons/plasma_runner_converterrunner.po
> #: converterrunner.cpp:137
> msgid ""
> "Converts the value of :q: when :q: is made up of \"value unit [>, to, as,
>  " "in] value\". You can use the Unit converter applet to find all
>  available " "units."
> \"value unit [>, to, as, in] value\" has to be changed aparently to
>  something like  \"value unit1 [>, to, as, in] unit2\".
> 
> Frederik reported this issue to plasma-devel@kde.org and got this answer:
> "unfortunately we're in string freeze, but i'll fix this locally and commit
>  as soon as it 4.5 opens up."
> 
> I've checked all existings 9 translations of this string and all of them
>  seem to be wrong (I'm not 100% sure about uk and ja).
> 
> How to deal with that?
> 
> 1) Leave the string unchanged and this mail as a remainder for the teams
>  how to translate this properly
> 
> 2) Change the source string
> 
> I'll prefer solution 2) cause every team has to check and correct the
>  string after reading this mail anyway.
> 

Well, I seem to have get it right then when I translated "value as value". But 
yes, it may be worded better.

Marek Laane
Estonian translator

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