GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569507
wrong gconf key value translations in Evolution
Last modified: 2009-09-24 13:03:08 UTC
./ar.po:msgid "Message-display style (\"normal\", \"full headers\", \"source\")" ./ar.po-msgstr "أسلوب عرض الرسائل (\"عادي\", \"ترويسات كاملة\", \"المصدر\")" These values are gconf values. Being a user, you MUST set the ENGLISH value if you want to change the value of the key manually, e.g. by using gconf-editor. It is IMPOSSIBLE for users of this language to GUESS the english values if you translate the values ONLY to your language. Proposal: Put your translation in brakets after the english value. Example: " "english_value" (translation_of_english_value) " Please also check the other strings in the affected po file - I only grep'ed for one example string. You could search for "schemas.in" for example. It might be worth to bring up and explain this problem (gconf key values should remain in english) to the other translators of your team to avoid this happening in the future. As this is a general problem I have asked for discussion at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2009-January/msg00477.html
Thanks for your report, I've fixed this and also skimmed the file quickly and didn't find any other instances. If you have some tool, or some regex-fu magic :), I'd happily use it to check the whole Arabic translation. Those are usually remnants of old translations and we fix them when encountered.