Re: [PATCH v2] l10n: de.po: translate 41 new messages

From: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@googlemail.com>
Date: May 31, 2012, 14:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0XMO+gqCB=OLRAKkrxc4GPNSiTtyokLB6x3tW2fBRc-BkRrQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zk8o3c8v.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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>> +#: builtin/apply.c:3974
>> +msgid "instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the input"
>> +msgstr "anstatt der Anwendung des Patches, wird die Differenz für die Eingabe "
>> +"ausgegeben"
>
> diffstat has no precedent, so we get to bikeshed (yay).  I added a
> placeholder to your glossary.  (I also added some other diff-related
> terms.)  My current best suggestion, sadly, is "diffstat" simply because
> it matches the option name.

Thanks for updating the glossary. I think it's ok to don't translate "diffstat" for now. Acutally, we did the same for "dirstat".

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>> +#: builtin/apply.c:4000 builtin/apply.c:4003
>> +msgid "ignore changes in whitespace when finding context"
>> +msgstr "ignoriert Änderungen in Leerzeichen bei der Suche des Kontextes"
>
> I interpret "Leerzeichen" as being (specifically) the ASCII space
> character.  Is it just me?  Otherwise I suggest we find a more general
> translation for whitespace.
>

Yeah, "Leerzeichen" is only a part of what whitespace could mean. We don't need to use one word for translation. If we can reduce the meaning to ASCII space characters and tabs, we could translate it as "Leerzeichen oder Tabulatoren"!? Maybe this is also just one half of the truth.

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>> +#: parse-options.h:156
>> +msgid "no-op (backward compatibility)"
>> +msgstr "Keine Operation (Rückwärtskompatibilität)"
>
> "Kein Effekt" might be less confusing?
>

Yeah, "Kein Effekt" sounds better to me. Thank you

Ralf