[RFC] Bazaar Localisation Team

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 25/11/2009 09:47, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I personally constantly trying to find the good variants for translation 
> and every time this is hard. There is many terms which is just dead hard 
> to translate adequately. [...] I can list you long list of hard 
> terms.

Same here (for French).

> Will be there enough native English speakers with infinite amount of 
> patience to answer question from translators: how we can translate XXX 
> and YYY to our language?

I sent a message to this list with these kind of questions (when translating BzrExplorer). 
Hadn't much answers...

> Just for fun, how do you translate "push" as bzr command?

In French, I translated with "ajouter", ie. to add (revisions to remote repository).
The meaning of physical push seemed too obscure/not appropriate.
I translated "pull" with "récupérer", ie. something like "get back".

Same difficulty for "checkout"! (I used "miroir", ie. mirror.)

> I'm still unable to translate it. And many ru people as I know just 
> using calque and use original word "push" as jargon.

I tried hard to avoid keeping original English jargon in my translations...

> Always 
> should be canonical glossary with the variants how to translate terms, 
> so all translations around bzr ecosystem (docs, GUI l10n, CLI l10n) will 
> use *the same words*.

Yes. I have a glossary I wrote on paper, I should make it more formal.

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