513232 - translation of main menu action "send a link to .." is not translated well

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Localizations :: fr / French, defect)

Description

[Julien Reignier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The actual french translation is "Envoyer un lien vers la page ...", the 3 dots meaning that you can expect a dialog box where you can choose wich page you want to send a link to.
A better translation would be "Envoyer un lien vers cette page", which suits better what Firefox is actually doing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on main menu "Fichier"

Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Benoit]

Well, the original string is just "Send link…" with the ellipsis. 
http://www.frenchmozilla.fr/glossaire/fr/index.php?recherche=Envoyer+un+lien+vers+la+page

I assume the ellipsis means that you will be asked _who_ to send the link to, not which link. At least it's what Thunderbird does for me.

We could change "la" to "cette" but I'm not sure it would be an improvement. It's longer and not really more descriptive. We're already a lot more informative that the original English string. In any case, I'd keep the ellipsis.

I'm tempted to mark this bug as WORKSFORME but I'll wait for a second advice. Adding the great goofy to CC :)

Comment 2

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

Yes I agree the ellipsis suggests a further action, which is entering a recipient	in the appropriate mailer client composition field.

Comment 3

[Cédric Corazza]

Worksforme as for comments #1 and #2