[pacman-dev] Translation errors

[Xavier]

Matthias Gorissen wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 17 Juli 2008 08:41:15 schrieb Xavier:
> 
>> and I see that the German translation still includes
>> [Y/n], 
> 
> ... and what is even worse, it should be [J/n] in German. That particular line 
> was a mess in older versions, anyway.
> 
> I'll fix it this night. However, is it correct that [Y/n] still appears in the 
> msgid (line 1221):
> 
> msgid "    Are you sure you wish to do this? [Y/n] "
> msgstr "    Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie dies tun möchten? [J/n]"
> 

Hm good point. This one is in makepkg, so it is normal indeed, it was 
not affected by the new Y/n handling inside pacman.
However, the above translation is wrong too, you have to keep the [Y/n] 
intact, because the check itself is not localized.
That means that when you have to answer that question, it will only 
accept yes or y (case insensitive), and not ja or j.

Again, all what said above only concerns makepkg. For pacman everything 
is localized, which is why you need to translate all these strings : 
[Y/n] , [y/N], YES, NO, etc

But it would probably make more sense to just do exactly the same thing 
in makepkg, and it should be rather easy. Besides, as a benefit of 
having only one .po file for both makepkg and pacman, we can just reuse 
all the above strings.