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Re: More on the security pages translation mess...



On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:06:12PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> A quick check gives that at least the following files contain
> English-specific texts:
> 
> 20000201.data 20000217.data 20000328.data 20000605.data 20000612.data
> 20000619.data 20000628.data 20000728.data 20000812.data 20000821.data
> 20000902a.data 20000910.data 20000911.data 20001008.data 20001009.data
> 20001013a.data 20001013.data 20001014a.data 20001014.data
> 20001111a.data 20001111.data 20001112.data 20001118a.data
> 20001122b.data 20001122.data dsa-029.data dsa-046.data dsa-047.data
> dsa-048.data dsa-049.data dsa-050.data
> 
I am going through these to fix them up right now.

> And this was only a quick check, and only of year 2000 and 2001 (I
> haven't checked 1999). There are also a number of border-line cases
> (for instance, the only English-specific things in dsa-050.data is the
> use of `' as quote marks, something which isn't used in Swedish or
> Norwegian typography, I didn't include texts with other hard-coded
> English typography).
> 
> Either:
> 
> 1. Fix this in a good way
> 
working on it. This change was much needed and a lot of work.
Feedback makes fixing the remaining problems much easier.

> or
> 
> 2. Revert the changes.
> 
Not going to happen. We will help fix any problems, though. :)

> Also please put back my translation-check headers so I know where I
> was.
> 
> *sigh*

My original message said there would be some problems. Please help
us correct them (by fixing mistakes we introduced into your
translation if you don't have time to help with the .data files).

Remember, we are volunteers too.

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org



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