Re: French translation typos

Le 28/05/2021 à 07:00, Julien Rouhaud a écrit :
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:31 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> (...)
> Indeed, in both cases the 2nd version was introduced in the 1990
> reform [1]. It's a matter of taste, but I personally dislike most of
> the changes that it introduced. I'm assuming that most of younger
> people will disagree :)

I know elder people that disagree, but I prefer the old rules too.

>
>> msgid "floating-point exception"
>> msgstr "exception dû à une virgule flottante"
>>
>> Should be "dûe", or would this be better as "exception en virgule flottante"?
> "dûe" indeed. I'm not sure which one would be better actually, but
> most of the French translation is probably using a style similar to
> the 1st one so keeping it may be better for consistency. Guillaume
> may have a better opinion :)
The accent goes away on feminine form of "dû", so it should be spelt "due".
>
>> msgid "distance in phrase operator should be non-negative and less than %d"
>> msgstr "la distance dans l'opérateur de phrase devrait pas positif et
>> inférieur à %d"
>>
>> devrait pas positif et inférieur à -> devrait être non négative et
>> inférieure à (?)

Is there a difference in meaning between "non négative" and "positive" ? (True
question.)

Best,

Stéphane

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