What's up with the French translation?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Oct 7 11:03:20 CDT 2011


I'm seeing things like:

#, python-format
msgid "abort: %s: %s\n"
msgstr "abandon : %s : %s\n"

This translation has gratuitous formatting changes. Why is that a good
idea? Ok, I guess that's a strict rule of French typography:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponctuation#Traitement_des_espaces_pour_les_symboles_bipoints

But that led me to this:

#, fuzzy, python-format
msgid "parent: %d:%s %s\n"
msgstr "abandon : %s : %s\n"

#, fuzzy, python-format
msgid "branch: %s\n"
msgstr "abandon : %s\n"

And these are obviously wrong, yes?

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