bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013, at 21:06, Paul Eggert wrote:
> -          error (0, errno, _("reading %s"), quote (src_name));
> +          error (0, errno, _("error reading %s"), quote (src_name));
> 
> Surely a translator who read the message in context will see
> that it's an error message, since 'error' is being called.

Translators will generally only look at the source code when the
message is somehow puzzling or unclear.  Here the meaning
seems straightforward, and thus the Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto,
French, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanish translators all
translated the above message as if it described an activity.
(The other languages I cannot judge.)

Benno

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