Re: English localization

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
> > #. Type: select
> > #. Description
> > msgid ""
> > "Please select the closest Debian mirror, relatively to network 
> > topology, not "
> > "necessarily to geographical reasons."
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > Bad English.  Try this instead:
> > "Please select the closest Debian mirror (according to network topology; 
> > not necessarily the closest geographically)."
>
>
> The one for https mirrors is much better, so I have changed it to use
> similar text for ftp.
Lovely!

<snip>
> Seems to already be done.
<snip and several more like>
Yes.  Christian Perrier was very nice and fixed a whole bunch of the 
ones which don't change translations.  :-)

> > #. Type: note
> > #. Description
> > msgid ""
> > "The root filesystem is a RAM disc. The hard disc file systems are 
> > mounted on "
> > "\"/target\". The editor available to you is nano. It's very small and 
> > easy "
> > "to figure out. To get an idea of what Unix utilities are available to 
> > you, "
> > "run \"ls /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin\"."
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > Not *really* an error, but doesn't everyone use the "disk" spelling 
> > these days, rather than the "disc" spelling?
>
>
> Here in the states we do, but I cannot speak for the British. Left it
> as-is.
OK.  I notice that "disk" is used everywhere *else* in d-i, however.

> > There are others which could be improved, but they'd all need to be 
> > rewritten, and they're basically OK as is.  These are the ones I'd be 
> > embarassed to release with.  I would expect that no changes in other 
> > languages' translations would be necessary for most of these, assuming 
> > the translators have good command of their own languages.
> >
> > I did notice these:
> >
> > #. Type: select
> > #. Description
> > msgid ""
> > "Please choose the interface you want to configure. All currently detected 
> > "
> > "interfaces on your system are shown below. Please choose the type of your 
> > "
> > "primary network interface. This interface will be used for installing the 
> > "
> > "Debian system (via NFS or HTTP)."
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > The term 'interface' is rather technical and obscure to newbies (I 
> > remember going 'what the *&$* is an interface?'), and no synonym or 
> > definition is given.  Is there some way to make this clearer?  This 
> > occurs elsewhere as well.  Perhaps "interface (networking card)" or 
> > "type of network interface (connection)" or something????
> >
> > This message has some other problems:  Are you choosing the interface 
> > you want to configure, or the *type* of your primary network interface? 
> > It apparently asks you to do both in one message.
>
>
> Rewritten to:
>
> _Description: Primary network interface:
>  Your system has multiple network interfaces. Choose the one to use as
>  the primary network interface while installing Debian.
Sounds great !

> > #. Type: error
> > #. Description
> > msgid ""
> > "Please check the error log on the third console or /var/log/messages for "
> > "more information."
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > In keeping with the other messages which discuss things like this, it 
> > should probably say "...on the third console (ALT-F3) or..."
> > or something similar telling how to get the third console (if it's at 
> > all straightforward on the architecture this message is for).
>
>
> This is a multi-arch message, and I doubt it's the same everywhere. Also, if
> you don't know how to switch VC's, perhaps the error message may not be very
> useful to you either..
Indeed.  Sounds good!

D-i looks great!