[Mageia-i18n] String changes in perl-install

Rémi Verschelde rverschelde at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 21:11:54 CEST 2011


2011/4/4 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
> 2011/4/4 Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde at gmail.com>:

>> [...]
>> -                          $in->ask_from(N("Partitionning"), N("Which
>> size do you want to keep for Microsoft Windows® on partition %s?",
>> partition_table::description($part)), [
>> +                          $in->ask_from(N("Partitionning"), N("What
>> size do you want to keep for Microsoft Windows® on partition %s?",
>> partition_table::description($part)), [
>>
>> The new sentence is okay, but maybe this one would be clearer: "Which
>> disk space do you want to keep for Microsoft Windows® on partition
>> %s?"
>>
>
> "Which" implies defined choices, i.e. "Which size do you want to keep for foo?
> 1) 500
> 2) 1000
> 3) 2000 "
>
> if there're no given/defined choices, I think "what" is better in the context.
>

You're right "what" is better than "which" in this context. I've
always had a problem with these two :p So both "What size..." or "What
disk space..." should be okay, it's up to you.


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