[l10n-no] some remarks about the Bokmaal translations for nano
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
kjetilho at ifi.uio.no
Ons 23. Jun 2021 15:32:50 PDT
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 11:59 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> >
> Looking around more in nb.po, I now see that the translation for
> "Case Sens" is far too long:
>
> msgid "Case Sens"
> msgstr "Følsomt for store/små bokstavar"
>
> On an 80-column terminal, the user gets to see just this:
>
> ^G Hjelp M-C Følsomt for M-B Bakover
> ^C Avbryt M-R Reg.exp. ^R Erstatt
>
> I know this is impossible to expresss in just eleven letters -- even
> the English needs to use a creative abbreviation -- but these are the
> limits of the nano interface.
actually, it is not impossible. the word "versalvar" means case
sensitive in Norwegian (the Danish call it "versalfølsom" I think - way
too long-winded ;-)
--
venleg helsing,
Kjetil T.
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