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

[Patrick Winnertz]

Am Freitag 08 Januar 2010 13:41:42 schrieb 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.
I'm currently work on my bachelor thesis, so I would prefer if you've time 
that you could do something :)

Greetings
Winnie