[zope3-i18n] Re: SVN: Zope3/trunk/src/zope/app/locales/de/LC_MESSAGES/zope.po sanitized some over-zealous translations

Philipp von Weitershausen philipp at weitershausen.de
Sun Nov 13 00:42:15 EST 2005


Hi Thomas,

>>To give others who have signed up for the German translation and have
>>already devoted a lot of time into it an opportunity to participate in
>>this changeset, I would like to ask you to revert it and assume
>>discussion on the zope3-i18n at zope.org list first. I'm sure you have
>>valid points, but it would be better if they were discussed first.
> 
> 
> If no-one objects, I'd like to discuss the changes before reworking or
> reverting the changes; there has been another change in the meantime.
> 
> I changed:
> "Interpretierer" to "Interpreter",
> "Webplatz" to "Web-Site",
> "Verwalter" to "Verwaltung" where it refered to, e.g., a site manager
>                             folder as opposed to the user with manager
>                             permissions.
> 
> The latter two of these do appear in the dictionary, but I'd like to
> propose changing them there as well. "Webplatz" is not otherwise used in
> my experience (but correct me if I'm wrong) and is only a partial
> translation anyway. "Verwalter" may be correct to the letter but feels
> strange to everyone I was talking to, both in real life and on #zope.de.

No one objected, so feel free to make the changes. Note that you'll also
have to update the translations at launchpad.net if you want to make
them count for Zope 3.1.

Philipp


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