Re: [PATCH] l10n: de.po: fix interactive rebase message

From: phillip <phillip.szelat@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2016, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <B55AE545-A7E5-4454-BB8F-FDE4D5F05B7E@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0XMOLrO98XB9DN39=bZpXUyTtUz0y-HuTxDGFBJ3nRR9z3_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

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>Looking at the standard translations in Ubuntu [1],
>"command" is supposed to be translated as "Befehl" if
>it's the first part in the command line (the actual command)
>and "Kommando" if it's the second part (a subcommand).
>
>Currently we almost always translate as "Kommando", which,
>following this guidance, is only partially correct.
>In this case here I'd interpret it as "Befehl", too.
>
>I personally am happy to go this way.  However, this should
>be done in a separate patch that updates the whole translation.
>
>Phillip, you're by far more experienced with other translations
>than me, what do you think?
>

Well I would just use "Befehl". I have never used/seen the translation "Kommando" for a subcommand, because most people would not know the difference.

Maybe we should also change that in the ubuntu guidelines.

Phillip