From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Misguided translations in Guix
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 23:15:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvf985ww.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170102062343.GA11957@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 2 Jan 2017 07:23:43 +0100")
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’.
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