Re: Error in .po file ?

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

ons 2003-08-20 klockan 15.14 skrev David O'Callaghan:
> > > gconf (HEAD) has:
> > > 
> > > msgid "Ignoring bad car from XML pair: %s"
> ...
> > The term "car" and its counterpart "cdr" are from LISP, not XML. They
> > refer to the first and second element of a pair, respectively. If I
> > understand this correctly, GConf, like LISP, uses pairs to represent
> > lists:
> 
> Shouldn't these be changed to something like "first element" and "second
> element", or at least explained in a translator comment?
> If these messages are intended for non-developers (and non-LISPers) I
> think the terms "car" and "cdr" should be abandoned.

Agreed. Please file a bug report in Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gconf&keywords=string,GNOMEVER2.3


Christian