Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Tollef Fog Heen wrote on 28/08/09 22:48:
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> ]] Matthew Paul Thomas 
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> | The nifty thing about "store" is that it has those two meanings --
> | shop, and repository -- and both of them are appropriate.
> 
> This might be true for English, but it's certainly not true for all
> other languages.

Of course. In most other languages, "store" has no meaning at all.

>                   When it gets translated, it'll probably either be
> translated to what you'd translate «shop» to, or to what you'd
> translate «storage facility» to.  To make matters worse, it might well
> be translated differently for different languages.

Good point. I've now noted in the spec that the code should carry a
translation note about which connotation to prefer.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareStore?action=diff&rev2=128&rev1=127>
Perhaps someone would like to add that note to the code?
<https://code.launchpad.net/software-store>

Thanks
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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