Updating Italian libc translation for ESTALE in glibc
Federico Bruni
fede@inventati.org
Tue Apr 18 20:39:55 GMT 2023
Il giorno mar 18 apr 2023 alle 09:42:41 -0400, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@redhat.com> ha scritto:
> On 4/17/23 17:15, Federico Bruni wrote:
>>
>>
>> Il giorno lun 17 apr 2023 alle 22:46:35 +0200, Daniele Forsi
>> <dforsi@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>> Hello Carlos,
>>>
>>>> I have an Italian translation for ESTALE that could be used.
>>>
>>> the translations that you quoted are wrong because they are
>>> translating "handle" as "handling"
>>>> msgstr "Gestione del file NFS interrotta"
>>>> msgstr "Gestione file obsoleti"
>>>
>>>
>>> the word "handle" is difficult to translate in this context and I
>>> don't know a translation for "stale" in this context better than
>>> the
>>> one in RHEL6 and RHEL7, however I would use a singular form, so I
>>> suggest:
>>> msgid "Stale file handle"
>>> msgstr "Handle di file obsoleto"
>>>
>>> I found some hits on search engines for "handle di file" but none
>>> for
>>> "handle di file obsoleto"
>>>
>>
>> I think "handle" should be translated.
>> There's no Italian translation in Wikipedia:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_(computing)
>>
>> As it's described as an abstract reference to a resource (a file),
>> I would use the translation of reference, that is:
>>
>> "Riferimento obsoleto al file"
>
> I prefer the first (at least my Argentine brain says it sounds better
> ;-)).
>
Yes, I prefer the first as well.
Daniele, what do you think?
>> "Riferimento al file obsoleto"
>>
>> Which one sounds better?
>> The handle is stale (not the file), right?
>
> Correct, the inode/handle/descriptor is stale, not the file.
>
> The process can reopen the file to refresh the handle.
>
> It would be great to get a translation for this for libc, since
> ESTALE is
> an important error return for filesystem access functions.
>
> Is there anything I can do to support adding a translation for
> Italian?
>
The translation is managed by the Translation Project?
This one?
https://translationproject.org/domain/libc.html
I see now that the assigned translator Sergio is here in Cc.
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