Re: [Tails-l10n] german: proposed change in tails-greeter

hi!

>>> @flapflap, @u: Do you already have a list of 'standard translation'?
>>
>> No. My last information on this issue was that we wanted to have a
>> little IRC meeting to talk about how to constitute this list. That never
>> happened though :)
>>
>> Maybe we could create a ticket on Redmine, under translation issues, and
>> start building a glossary which would be closely related to Tails and
>> Tor and which we could rely on? Could this be done using a script in
>> first place and then some human intervention on script output?
> No, I too don't have a list.
>
> Do you mean a script to (1) generate the glossary, or to (2)
> enforce/check it on the translations?
> For both of them I'd have no idea how to do that.

I thought about a script to generate a rough glossary.
I also have no concrete idea in mind, but maybe we can discuss this at
the translation workshop at the Tails Hackfest next weekend with
attendees who might have an idea?

BTW: is any of you coming?

> For (2) the only way might be to grep for special English words (e.g.
> taken from a glossary file) and then manually inspect how these are
> translated in German. But grepping alone is not enough: some files just
> have the pure strings and some fixed line width, so the newline
> sometimes breaks a word (these entries have a 'no-wrap' flag if I'm not
> mistaken...)
> The basic problem (I guess) is that we know a _correct_ word (from the
> glossary), but don't know all the ways to translate it _wrong_ and so we
> can't grep for wrong words (which would be what we as a user would like
> to have: a script that says where wrong translations are that need to be
> fixed).
>
> ~flapflap
>
> PS: unfortunately, I'll be very busy during the next 6 weeks, so please
> apologise if it takes a while until I respond...

cheers!