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* README, agent/command.c, agent/keyformat.txt, common/i18n.c,
common/iobuf.c, common/keyserver.h, dirmngr/cdblib.c,
dirmngr/ldap-wrapper.c, doc/DETAILS, doc/TRANSLATE,
doc/announce-2.1.txt, doc/gpg.texi, doc/gpgsm.texi,
doc/scdaemon.texi, doc/tools.texi, doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt,
g10/export.c, g10/getkey.c, g10/import.c, g10/keyedit.c, m4/ksba.m4,
m4/libgcrypt.m4, m4/ntbtls.m4, po/ca.po, po/cs.po, po/da.po,
po/de.po, po/el.po, po/eo.po, po/es.po, po/et.po, po/fi.po,
po/fr.po, po/gl.po, po/hu.po, po/id.po, po/it.po, po/ja.po,
po/nb.po, po/pl.po, po/pt.po, po/ro.po, po/ru.po, po/sk.po,
po/sv.po, po/tr.po, po/uk.po, po/zh_CN.po, po/zh_TW.po,
scd/app-p15.c, scd/ccid-driver.c, scd/command.c, sm/gpgsm.c,
sm/sign.c, tools/gpgconf-comp.c, tools/gpgtar.h: replace "Allow to"
with clearer text.
In standard English, the normal construction is "${XXX} allows ${YYY}
to" -- that is, the subject (${XXX}) of the sentence is allowing the
object (${YYY}) to do something. When the object is missing, the
phrasing sounds awkward, even if the object is implied by context.
There's almost always a better construction that isn't as awkward.
These changes should make the language a bit clearer.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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$Id$
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Note for translators
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Some strings in GnuPG are for matching user input against. These
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strings can accept multiple values that mean essentially the same
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thing.
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For example, the string "yes" in English is "sí" in Spanish. However,
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some users will type "si" (without the accent). To accomodate both
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users, you can translate the string "yes" as "sí|si". You can have
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any number of alternate matches seperated by the | character like
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"sí|si|seguro".
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The strings that can be handled in this way are of the form "yes|yes",
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(or "no|no", etc.) There should also be a comment in the .po file
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directing you to this file.
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Help files
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GnuPG provides a little help feature (entering a ? on a prompt). This
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help used to be translated the usual way with gettext but it turned
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out that this is too inflexible and does for example not allow
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correcting little mistakes in the English text. For some newer features
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we require editable help files anyway and thus the existing help
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strings have been moved to plain text files names "help.LL.txt". We
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distribute these files and allow overriding them by files of that name
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in /etc/gnupg. The syntax of these files is documented in
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doc/help.txt. This is also the original we use to describe new
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possible online help keys. The source files are located in doc/ and
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need to be in encoded in UTF-8. Strings which require a translation
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are disabled like this
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.#gpgsm.some.help-item
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This string is not translated.
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After translation you should remove the the hash mark so that the
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entry looks like.
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.gpgsm.some.help-item
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This string has been translated.
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The percent sign is not a special character and if there is something
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to watch out there will be a remark.
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Sending new or updated translations
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-----------------------------------
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Please note that we do not use the TP Robot but require that
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translations are to be send by mail to translations@gnupg.org. We
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also strongly advise to get subscribed to i18n@gnupg.org and request
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assistance if it is not clear on how to translate certain strings. A
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wrongly translated string may lead to a security problem.
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A copyright disclaimer to the FSF is not anymore required since
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December 2012.
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