[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#564072: Bug#564072: mc: Broken German localisation in menus

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> The relevant PO-file is in upstream's git:
>
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/browser/po/de.po

OK.

> The result would better go here:
>
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1370
>
> So that they can commit this directly in the master tree.

OK.

>> But on the other hand: The strings I was refering to were translated
>>  for _ages_.  I'm using MC since 1996 and I would bet the menu was
>>  translated even then.  So I adapted to the German key shortcuts which
>>  is the basic problem (I can perfectly read the English text for sure).
>
> That's true, but the menu has been completely rearranged lately and is
> now generated dynamically. I think that fuzzy translations might be the
> reason why gettext does not want to use old translations or something
> like this.

I really see a lot of "#, fuzzy" lines which just seem to need deletion.
Patrick, I see your name as last translator and I know you are involved
in MidnightCommander development / packaging.  Are you going to polish
the PO file soon or should I spend some time on it.  I just want to
coordinate and prevent unneeded doubling of work.

Thanks for the hints

       Andreas.