Bug 228509 - wrong use of units in various translations (mainly Dutch)
Summary: wrong use of units in various translations (mainly Dutch)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-vfs2
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
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Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-13 14:04 UTC by Armijn Hemel
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 19:13:18 UTC
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Description Armijn Hemel 2007-02-13 14:04:16 UTC
Description of problem:

Some units are used wrongly. The error is in the translation of the .po files.
Fixes are trivial. Units should not be changed between langauges. Now every
megabyte (MB) becomes a megabit (Mb) in the Dutch translation. This is wrong and
confusing. Apart from the Dutch translation other translations might have this
error too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.16.2-2

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set language to Dutch
2. insert USB disk or so
3. see size displayed in Mb instead of MB on the desktop
  
Actual results:

Mb

Expected results:

MB

Additional info:

Cut and paste from nl.po:

# KB / Kb
#: ../libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-utils.c:84
#, c-format
msgid "%.1f KB"
msgstr "%.1f Kb"

#: ../libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-utils.c:88
#, c-format
msgid "%.1f MB"
msgstr "%.1f Mb"

#: ../libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-utils.c:92
#, c-format
msgid "%.1f GB"
msgstr "%.1f Gb"

Comment 1 Armijn Hemel 2007-02-13 18:02:32 UTC
This bug is also in the Danish and "Limburgish" translation. It is just plain
wrong, since these are international standards.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:13:02 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:13:17 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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