Package: xkeyboard-config Severity: normal Tags: l10n
Translations of xkeyboard-config will soon be used by Debian Installer, which explains why I had a look at them, in that case with my "member of the Debian French l10n team" hat.
xkeyboard-config includes many (maybe even all) country names, that are already translated in the iso-codes software package (http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/) which is *not* a Debian-only package, but also used by many upstream authors (GNOME mostly) for translations of countries and languages names.
When comparing both French translations of xkeyboard-config (managed by Marc Veillet and traduc.org) and those of iso-codes' ISO-3166 (managed by me...but actually taken from the standard itself as French names for countries are part of that standard), I found 4 differences:
#. #-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-# #. name for ETH, historic names for ETH (withdrawn 1993-07-16) #: ../rules/base.xml.in.h:207 ../rules/evdev.xml.in.h:207 #, fuzzy msgid "Ethiopia" msgstr "" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-#\n" "Éthiopie\n" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po (xkeyboard-config 1.5) #-#-#-#-#\n" "Ethiopie"
Here, xkeyboard-config is missing the capital "E acute". And "my" translation has a nasty "\n" which I'll remove immediately..:-)
#. #-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-# #. name for FRO #: ../rules/base.xml.in.h:216 ../rules/evdev.xml.in.h:216 #, fuzzy msgid "Faroe Islands" msgstr "" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-#\n" "Feroë, Îles\n" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po (xkeyboard-config 1.5) #-#-#-#-#\n" "Îles Féroé"
Here, xkeyboard-config uses the "natural" translation that unfortunately places "Feroë" in a weird place in alphabetical lists.
#. #-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-# #. name for KOR #: ../rules/base.xml.in.h:336 ../rules/evdev.xml.in.h:336 #, fuzzy msgid "Korea, Republic of" msgstr "" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-#\n" "Corée, République de\n" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po (xkeyboard-config 1.5) #-#-#-#-#\n" "République de Corée"
Same here...."Corée, République de" would be better placed in alphabetical lists
#. #-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-# #. name for MNE, official_name for MNE #: ../rules/base.xml.in.h:450 ../rules/evdev.xml.in.h:450 #, fuzzy msgid "Montenegro" msgstr "" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po #-#-#-#-#\n" "Monténégro\n" "#-#-#-#-# fr.po (xkeyboard-config 1.5) #-#-#-#-#\n" "Serbie-et-Monténégro"
That one is more worrying and potential source of strong political arguments..:-)
I attach a patch with suggested changes.
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash