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Re: tvtime 1.0.2-3: Please translate debconf PO for the package tvtime



Hi, 

On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The debian-l10n-english team has reviewed the debconf templates for
> tvtime. This opens an opportunity for new translations to be sent
> for that package.

There's one weird thing in the templates which I assume is not intentional.

One template consists of three sentences. However, there are two other templates 
which contain these same sentences split between them.

#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:3002
msgid ""
"Please choose the frequency table to use. It specifies which frequencies "
"correspond to the familiar channel numbers. You should select \"Broadcast\" "
"if you use an antenna for over-the-air signals."
msgstr ""

#. Type: select
#. Description
#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:4002 ../templates:5002
msgid ""
"Please choose the frequency table to use. It specifies which frequencies "
"correspond to the familiar channel numbers."
msgstr ""

#. Type: select
#. Description
#: ../templates:4002
msgid ""
"You should select \"Broadcast\" if you use an antenna for over-the-air "
"signals."
msgstr ""

This is little problematic for me, as it does little sense to translate the last 
sentence to Finnish, because the word for broadcast is same as for antenna. 
(i.e. if we would translate it back to English, it would say: "select antenna, 
if you use antenna.")

If the templates are kept as they are, what should I enter for a string that I 
don't want to translate? I tried to think something that could make things even 
more clear but failed.

Cheers, 
Edu

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