Quoting F Wolff (frie...@translate.org.za): > > When fixinv "endpunc", I noticed that interrogative sentences are > > mentioned to be wrong as they end with " ?" while English ends with > > "?". *This* is normal in French as question marks are preceded by a > > (non-breaking) space. So, if there's an exception system somewhere, > > this should be added to it. > > > > The same stands for ":" translated as " :" > > Yes, the tests currently test for "[space]?" instead of "[nbsp]?" as it > should. I have a patch to do the right thing, but I'm not yet sure about > the consequences, so I've been postponing this. How often will > complaining about "[space]?" actually help a user to fix towards > "[nbsp]?" rather than just "?" ? Do all French translators know how to > type nbsp correctly while translating?
Hmm, tricky. Probably not (nbsp is IIRC traditionnally hard to type in Windoze, for instance). The best would be testing for "(space]|[nbsp])?" if that's possible. > > PS: I fixed "endpunc" but I have doubts whether original strings are > > really consistent wrt this..:-) > > If you find any inconsistencies, please report that. Several issues > were corrected in the English before the string freeze, but I realise > there might still be a few small issues left that we'll want to fix > soon. I should go over all these strings, of course. In short, I generally put a sentence dot for each sentence, that is each string that includes a verb. Some original strings don't have one. > > I also don't understand a few "simplecaps" tests such as the error > > reported against "Calculating translation statistics, this will take a > > few minutes". I seems this is because I have two sentences while > > English has only one. > > Explanations of all the tests are here: > http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter_tests > > The case you mention has bad English - it should have been two > sentences, so I'm sure your translation is better. Yes, that's apparently a quite common mistake in software texts (mostly progress bars): "Doing foo, this will bar"....while "Doing foo" should be a sentence per se, ending with "...". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
