| Summary: | typo: Mexico is spelled with an x, not j | ||
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| Product: | [Translations] i18n | Reporter: | Victor Arguelles <v.arguelles> |
| Component: | es | Assignee: | spanish translation <kde-es> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | n |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | mexico in kde-i18n-es 3.5.2 | ||
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Description
Victor Arguelles
2006-04-04 01:00:57 UTC
It should be spelt the way the locale native speakers expect it to be spelt. If it varies from region to region, we have to split the locales. That's why we have es_MX, es_ES, es_AR, etc. How do you change that then? In the control center, you can only select spanish, but no mexican spanish or spanish spanish. There is no es_MX i18n package. The output of locale is: LANG=es_MX@euro LANGUAGE=en_MX:en_US:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE=es_MX@euro LC_NUMERIC="es_MX@euro" LC_TIME="es_MX@euro" LC_COLLATE="es_MX@euro" LC_MONETARY="es_MX@euro" LC_MESSAGES=es_MX@euro LC_PAPER="es_MX@euro" LC_NAME="es_MX@euro" LC_ADDRESS="es_MX@euro" LC_TELEPHONE="es_MX@euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_MX@euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_MX@euro" LC_ALL= My point is: if the spelling is controversial and changes from country to country, then we'll need to split the kde-l10n-es package, just as it is done to a few other languages already. But I am not sure this is the case here. I don't speak Spanish and the decision comes from the translators in the end. I don't think it's a controversial issue. There is no one arguing about keeping the 'j' spelling. The RAE recommends the 'x' spelling, which is also the one that is used by most people. I don't think it necessary to split the spanish translations, but to find the most fitting spelling for a given word depending on the case. Hola Victor I wanted to change Méjico by México but I cannot find it. The locale in KDE is correct: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/l10n/mx/entry.desktop?rev=533225&view=markup KDE uses México everywhere except in two ocurrences that I will change now. Can you please tell me where have you seen Méjico written so in KDE? On 2 May 2006 17:14:35 -0000, Pablo de Vicente <p.devicente@wanadoo.es> wrote: > Hola Victor > > I wanted to change M another info to this bug from http://bugs.debian.org/366861 (kde 3.5.2) "The name of the city, country and state is "México", not "Méjico". In many parts of the kde-i18n-es files you can find "Méjico". ... The Constitution of Mexico, writing in Spanish, always refers to Mexico as "México". I have checked with Mexican people and they agree to call their country "México". This also applies to the city, the state and the country." I attach the patch to 3.5.2 if you want to check. Created attachment 16075 [details]
mexico in kde-i18n-es 3.5.2
Still valid? Ping? Sorry, yes the typo is still there. Actually it now says "Ciudad M Sad... Let's hope Spanish translators wake finally up from long hibernation... SVN commit 707010 by quique: SVN_SILENT: Fix Mexico spelling in Spanish BUG: 124863 M +1 -1 kaddressbook.po --- trunk/l10n-kde4/es/messages/kdepim/kaddressbook.po #707009:707010 @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ #: addresseditwidget.cpp:535 msgid "Mexico" -msgstr "Mejico" +msgstr "México" #: addresseditwidget.cpp:536 msgid "Micronesia, Federated States Of" |