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French again ! ! - Error by poussahpensif on 12-15-2003 at 02:19 PM
Hello Bonjour
I don't know if it's more a bug or a translation problem, but i found something:
Je ne sais pas s'il s'agit plus d'un bogue ou d'une erreur de traduction, mais voici ce que j'ai trouvé:
In/Dans [PrefDlg.POPMail]
In the Preferences, in the "POP3 Email" options (in french : "courrier POP3"), the content of the french PasswordLabel string ("Mot de passe :") isn't totally displayed, there is only "Mot de".
There is room for a 11 characters string only, or this one is 14 characters long!!
So we need more room, or a shorter word for "Mot de passe", wich i do not know!!
Dans les préférences, rurique courrier POP3, le contenu de la chaine PasswordLabel en français ("Mot de passe :") ne s'affiche pas entièrement, seul "Mot de" est affiché.
Une chaine de 11 caractères peut tenir, or PasswordLabel en français en fait 14!!
Il faut donc plus de place, ou un synonyme plus court de "Mot de passe", ce que j'avoue ne pas connaitre!!!
please correct my english 
Poussah 
Pensif
RE: French again ! ! - Error by CookieRevised on 12-15-2003 at 04:37 PM
That's a problem all translators face. This is solved by looking for (shorter) alternatives. Unfortunaly my French is very bad and I can't give you any suggestion. Maybe a synonym-dictionannry will help?
The length of the textboxes are not measured in characters but in pixels; some characters take more pixels to show...
And in some textboxes, if the last word on the line is just too long to display, the word is wrapped to a second line. But afcourse you don't see that cause there is only 1 line being displayed...
RE: French again ! ! - Error by Luke87 on 12-16-2003 at 04:54 AM
Isn't patchou french canadian? He could have translated it 
RE: French again ! ! - Error by LeCastor2001 on 12-16-2003 at 06:52 AM
Ouais, à la limite "passe" ça devrait suffire.... Font chier aussi à mettre des textbox de 3 pixels de large !
C'est pour ça que j'ai tous mes logiciels en anglais d'ailleurs, ça me saoule ces traductions à la con...
Caitai le coup de gueule du mardi matin, merci 
RE: French again ! ! - Error by AustinM1983 on 12-16-2003 at 07:10 AM
yeah but isnt the French spoken in Canada like the English that was spoken in the 1800's 
RE: French again ! ! - Error by Choli on 12-16-2003 at 08:22 AM
quote:Yep, and we suggested Patchou many times to make the textboxes bigger but that's not allways possible
Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's a problem all translators face. This is solved by looking for (shorter) alternatives.
quote:actually all textboxes
And in some textboxes, if the last word on the line is just too long to display, the word is wrapped to a second line. But afcourse you don't see that cause there is only 1 line being displayed...
quote:He's very busy coding plus and doing the english version so he said he wouldn't be able to translate plus into french
Originally posted by Luke87
Isn't patchou french canadian? He could have translated it
RE: RE: French again ! ! - Error by petitboeuf on 12-16-2003 at 04:51 PM
quote:
Originally posted by AustinM1983
yeah but isnt the French spoken in Canada like the English that was spoken in the 1800's
Yeah! And they're cheeky enough to tell the French that they speak better french than the natives.... tss tss
About the translation though here is my list of suggestions for what they are worth...
- Clé
- MotSecret
Yeah short list I know
... I ran out of steam... 
RE: French again ! ! - Error by billywoods1 on 12-16-2003 at 06:52 PM
Hmm... m.d.p.?
RE: French again ! ! - Error by BooGhost on 12-16-2003 at 06:57 PM
quote:
Originally posted by billywoods1
Hmm... m.d.p.?
yeah"mot de passe" i guess, yeah it's the best one
on dis "mot-clé" n'est pas? pr something like that
RE: French again ! ! - Error by Apatik on 12-16-2003 at 07:41 PM
never noticed that bug before lol, neither had the other translators 
I think the best alternative is M.D.P. .. Can't find another one 
BTW, mot-clé stands for keyword and french ppl don't say 'mot secret'
It will be fixed in the next version ^^ (everybody agree for M.D.P.?)
Edit : we finally chose 'Passe', any french speaking person should understand it, i hope.. 