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bug#34498: Confusing msgid " Running value is ~s.~%"
From: |
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
Subject: |
bug#34498: Confusing msgid " Running value is ~s.~%" |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:41:56 +0200 |
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NeoMutt/20180716 |
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:34:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > I am fairly sure
> >
> > #: modules/shepherd/scripts/herd.scm:86
> > #, scheme-format
> > msgid " Running value is ~s.~%"
> >
> > refers to the value of the #:running slot but translators don’t know
> > that and would translate it as a value that is running. This should
> > be changed and a comment for TRANSLATORS should be added.
>
> Done in Shepherd commit 5d418ff0de1ac0a5419344dfe70c08ed464f3797.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
No, it is not done. What the manual described as the @code{running}
value, i.e. the value of the #:running slot, was understood by at
least one translator not as the value of #:running but as a value
which runs.
> #. TRANSLATORS: The "~s" bit is most of the time a placeholder
> #. for the PID (an integer) of the running process, and
> #. occasionally for another Scheme object.
This is not the information that translators need.
Regards,
Florian