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 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow