[Qgis-tr] Typos and inconsistencies in source text

Tue Dec 13 16:30:27 PST 2016

Sveinn,

Great work! Once we decide what terms to use, they should not be very
difficult to fix.

Let's discuss it in the #19 Issue in Github.

Thanks!

Sveinn í Felli <sv1 at fellsnet.is> escreveu no dia terça, 13/12/2016 às 15:10:

> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on
> https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>
> Þann þri 13.des 2016 13:41, skrifaði Richard Duivenvoorde:
> >
> > Hi Sveinn,
> >
> > currently we collect UIX issues to be handled in upcoming QGIS3 in the
> > hope that (even non dev) people are able to pick these up...
> >
> > See:
> >
> > https://github.com/qgis/qgis3_UIX_discussion/issues
> >
> > It maybe a good idea to copy paste your list as one issue?
>
> Oh, great. Thanks Richard, already posted there:
> <https://github.com/qgis/qgis3_UIX_discussion/issues/19>
>
> Regards,
> Sveinn
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Duivenvoorde
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/2016 12:49 PM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> >> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on
> >> https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
> >>
> >> 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
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