From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Re: git-gui: some French translation enhancements Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:26:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20090321172657.GB32452@glandium.org> References: <5b4295c484a9659d1c5813e1859f192c34d6a99e.1237506346.git.nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> <20090320071316.GB5693@glandium.org> <1237559694.25283.46.camel@alexandre-desktop> <20090321101426.GB12971@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alexandre Bourget , Git List , Sam Hocevar , Christian Couder To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 21 18:28:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ll4zi-0001oZ-EP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:28:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757003AbZCUR0z convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:26:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754282AbZCUR0y (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:26:54 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:59058 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754495AbZCUR0x (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:26:53 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=jigen) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ll4y4-0004GY-EE; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:26:48 +0100 Received: from mh by jigen with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ll4yH-0008S7-GK; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:26:57 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090321101426.GB12971@vidovic> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >=20 > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:34:54AM -0400, Alexandre Bourget wrote: = = =20 > > > > Le vendredi 20 mars 2009 =E0 08:13 +0100, Mike Hommey a =E9crit : > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:54:02AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > IMHO, we should find a better way to say that than to use the "in= dex" > > > word at all. This obviously applies to all uses of "index" in fre= nch > > > where we avoided it in english. > > > > > > OTOH, the best I can find for "staging area" is "zone de pr=E9par= ation", > > > and that doesn't help finding a word for stage and unstage. > > > > "zone de pr=E9paration" sounds good to me. >=20 > I'm not sure we are doing more good than bad. The "index" is a > technical's Git word which has its own sense in Git. >=20 > We could provide a pure "only french terms" translation but I'm not s= ure > it's the best way to work in software translation. >=20 > "Index" is a one of theses terms having a "special meaning in place". > It stands in English for "staging area" and could have the same meani= ng > in french mainly because we don't have a good french word to that > special use case. >=20 > "Index" as-is in the french po is NOT a non-sense. Also, french peopl= e > newbie in Git would easily find help for the index (most websites are= in > english). Except that the english version tends to move away from the "index" term, in favour of "staging area", if my understanding of what was said at GitTogether is right. Mike