On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:51 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Ondřej Vašík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I googled a bit about that "french" issue, it was already reported to > > translation team. Answer was that it could be caused by translation like > > "report all bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of "report bugs to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" . I don't think so, I guess it is too similar to > > cause such confusion, I would prefer formulation like "report bugs > > related to <programname> utility to [email protected]" anyway ... > > will check if it is acceptable by upstream... > > Thanks for pursuing that. > I like the idea and will probably address it with a change like this: > > diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h > index e88b1bb..8577d44 100644 > --- a/src/system.h > +++ b/src/system.h > @@ -614,11 +614,12 @@ ptr_align (void const *ptr, size_t alignment) > static inline void > emit_bug_reporting_address (void) > { > - /* TRANSLATORS: The placeholder indicates the bug-reporting address > - for this package. Please add _another line_ saying > - "Report translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation > + /* TRANSLATORS: The second placeholder indicates the bug-reporting > + address for this package. Please add _another line_ saying > + "Report %s translation bugs to <...>\n" with the address for translation > bugs (typically your translation team's web or email address). */ > - printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT); > + printf (_("\nReport %s bugs to <%s>.\n"), last_component (program_name), > + PACKAGE_BUGREPORT); > } > > #include "inttostr.h"
A run with 'LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 chown --help' produced the 'report a bug' as: Signaler un bug à <[email protected]>. This is, literally, "report a bug to ...". Perhaps it might be another option to ask distributions to replace the string with a "report a bug to <distribution BTS>". Regards,
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