[Qgis-tr] Typos and inconsistencies in source text

[Sveinn í Felli]

Hi,

I've been noting down some of the errors my spellcheckers throw at me 
during translation work on QGIS.
(I use several gettext-based applications to beef up productivity, so I 
do convert the .ts with 'lupdate' back and forth. This allows me to use 
better spellchecking systems, both on source and translated strings.)

I think most of them should be corrected, and some may need some 
discussion. I'm only halfway through the source .ts file, and please 
bear with me the nitpicking ;-)

There are several spelling variants of some words. No one of those is 
"right" - but consistency is more "professional", n'est-ce pas?

Quote: "Neighbor is preferred in American English, and neighbour is 
preferred in all the other main varieties of English. The words are the 
same in every other respect."
The same is valid for "flavor/flavour".
The source is supposed to be in en_US, right? Or is en_GB more of a 
convention in GIS?

We have both "Catalog/Catalogue" and "Favorite/Favourite" - 
"Favorites/Favourites" in various places.

There are lots of places where we have different verions of the same words:

For "checkbox" we have also "Check Box" and "check-box".

We have 8 occurrences of "cell size" and about 20 of "cellsize". BTW; 
the latter gives an error in various spell-checkers.

Similar situation is with "no-data" vs. "nodata", 
"multi-part/multipart", "single-part/singlepart", 
"auto-detect/autodetect" "data source/datasource".

There's also "Heightbreak/Height break" once each in the QGIS-source; 
but I see more often "height-break" and "height break" in various 
documentation on the web.

There are still some occurences of 'Ctl' instead of 'Ctrl' for the 
Control-key. For example:
"Pin/Unpin Labels And Diagrams\n
Click or marquee on label/diagram to pin\n
Shift unpins, Ctl (Cmd) toggles state\n
Acts on all editable layers"



Spelling errors/doubts:

"Select a table for editation" --> 'editing' or 'to edit'

"Cannot convert "%s" to unicode" --> Strictly it should have capitalized 
'Unicode'.

"Mitre limit" --> "Miter limit" is more common US-English I think.

"Select the file to analyse" --> There are many occurences of 
"rasterize", "polygonize" etc. so this should have "analyze". Same 
should be valid for the string "Colorise" --> "Colorize, 
"synchronisation/synchronization" and "customisation/customization""

"Model processed ok." --> For consistency's sake it should be "OK". Same 
for "If you click Ok, edit mode will automatically be turned on.".

"Recent algs" --> There really isn't enough space for "Recent algorithms"?

"Click the icon to bring up the project properties dialog to alter this 
behaviour." and "Change empty table behaviour" --> "behavior".

"Error saving layer definintion file" --> "definition".

"There was an error loading a plugin.The following diagnostic 
information may help the QGIS developers resolve the issue:\n
%1." --> Missing space between 'plugin.' and 'The'.

"Controls the format used for the geometry column. Defaults to WKB.This 
is generally more space and processing efficient, but harder to inspect 
or use in simple applications than WKT (Well Known Text)." --> Missing 
space between 'WKB.' and 'This'.

"column_name1[,column_name2, ...] A list of (String) columns that must 
be compressed with ZLib DEFLATE algorithm. This might be beneficial for
databases that have big string blobs. However, use with care, since the
value of such columns will be seen as compressed binary content with 
other SQLite utilities (or previous OGR versions). With OGR, when 
inserting, modifying or queryings compressed columns, 
compression/decompression is done transparently. However, such columns 
cannot be (easily) queried with an attribute filter or WHERE clause. 
Note: in table definition, such columns have the 'VARCHAR_deflate' 
declaration type." --> "queryings" has an extra 's' at the end.

"Enter the name of an action here. The name should be unique (qgis will 
make it unique if necessary)." --> QGIS should be in capitals, right?

"If you require a vector-based output file from Qgis it is suggested 
that you try printing to PostScript if the SVG output is not 
satisfactory.</p>" --> QGIS should be in all-capitals, right?

"Specifies the underlying units used for scalebar calculations, eg 
"meters" or "feet" " --> 'eg' should be 'e.g.'. There are also several 
strings starting with 'Eg,' which should strictly be written 'E.g;' or 
with an easily understood "For example,".

"Import cancelled." --> "canceled".


If anyone has the opportunity and patience to grep/submit these 
corrections into the source code, I'd be grateful.

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli