[Fwd: Re: [Translation-i18n] Re: Bug report email address for translation sources ( was [Fwd: Re: [Kbabel] Re: Kbable errors])]

[Dwayne Bailey]

It seems like we'll be getting our bug report wish real soon now.  This 
is from the discussion that my request generated.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Translation-i18n] Re: Bug report email address for 
translation sources ( was [Fwd: Re: [Kbabel] Re: Kbable errors])
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:12:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
CC: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>, Karl Eichwalder <ke@suse.de>, 
translation-i18n@lists.sourceforge.net, Dwayne Bailey 
<dwayne@obsidian.co.za>

Karl Eichwalder writes:

>     Many a lot users depend on LC_MESSAGES=C.

Good point.

Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@obsidian.co.za> writes:

> >   1) report untranslatable strings,
> - Pluralisation problems and others such as assumptions about date, time 
>   and money text.
> - Clarification of terms and addition requests for context information 
>   (KDE specific)
> - Correcting source string (spelling, xml, formating)

Thanks - I'll add this list to the gettext documentation.

Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> What about Report-i18n-bugs-to: ?

Some users could misunderstand it, and send reports about bad
translations there (instead of to the translation team).

What about Report-msgid-bugs-To: ?

Bruno


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