Misguided translations in Guix

Misguided translations in Guix

[John Darrington]

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Looking at po/guix/*.po I can see a number of instances where the 
copyright notice appears to have translated the word "Copyright"
to the target language.

This should not be done.  The English word "Copyright" has legal meaning,
which is not always the case for the word in other languages.

Files affected include cs.po eo.po sr.po and vi.po - these need to be
fixed.

In fact, I suggest chaning the line in guix/ui.scm from:

  (display (_ "Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors ..."))

to: 

  (format #t (_ "~a  ~a the Guix authors ...") "Copyright" "2017")


J'


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Re: Misguided translations in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> Looking at po/guix/*.po I can see a number of instances where the 
> copyright notice appears to have translated the word "Copyright"
> to the target language.
>
> This should not be done.  The English word "Copyright" has legal meaning,
> which is not always the case for the word in other languages.
>
> Files affected include cs.po eo.po sr.po and vi.po - these need to be
> fixed.

Good points!

> In fact, I suggest chaning the line in guix/ui.scm from:
>
>   (display (_ "Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors ..."))
>
> to: 
>
>   (format #t (_ "~a  ~a the Guix authors ...") "Copyright" "2017")

Fixed along these lines in d925cdc35f1ffe79f6e17b2284fa20ca3082b0fe.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ludo’.