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Bug 120335 - Use of "car" and "cdr" in messages causes problems for translators
Use of "car" and "cdr" in messages causes problems for translators
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GConf
Classification: Deprecated
Component: XML backend
CVS HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: GNOME2.6
Assigned To: GConf Maintainers
GConf Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-20 18:25 UTC by david.ocallaghan
Modified: 2018-08-17 14:00 UTC
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Description david.ocallaghan 2003-08-20 18:25:13 UTC 
GConf has a msgid: "Ignoring bad car from XML pair: %s"

One translator thought that car was a typo for char. Others have found it
untranslatable and left it as CAR, which doesn't explain the meaning.

To make things easier for translators, either include a translator comment
that says "car" means "first element (of a pair)"

or

For the benefits of those less familiar with LISP-y jargon,
change the msgid to something like "Ignoring bad first element of XML pair:
%s" or similar.

Similar changes should be made for messages referring to cdr.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-10-22 19:49:03 UTC 
heck, it causes problems for programmers ;-)
Comment 2 alexander.winston 2004-05-14 17:05:00 UTC 
David, could please you provide a patch? I'm afraid that most of us aren't
familiar enough with LISP to create one with any degree of certainty.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2018-08-17 14:00:36 UTC 
GConf has been deprecated since 2011.

GConf is not under active development anymore. Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf/commits/master

dconf and gsettings are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html and https://developer.gnome.org/GSettings/ for porting info.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of dconf/gsettings. Thanks!