translating "self-signed certificate" et al in pipnss.properties
Axel Hecht
reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412749, I did an
mxr search over the translations of "self signed certificate" which
should have been (and is now) "self-signed certificate".
Looking at the translations, I started to wonder if you searched for
commonly used terms of that concept in your language. At least the
German one looked like not ("selbst unterschrieben" is a literal
translation that I find confusing).
Mind looking through the translations of pipnss.properties, and check if
you found the technical terms in those phrases, and translated them
appropriately?
Thanks
Axel
Alexandru Szasz
> Il 11-03-2009 13:32, Axel Hecht ha scritto:
>>
>> Looking at the translations, I started to wonder if you searched for
>> commonly used terms of that concept in your language. At least the German
>> one looked like not ("selbst unterschrieben" is a literal translation that I
>> find confusing).
>
> glossary (maybe you already know this resource):
> http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/default.mspx
>
> For German I get "Selbstsigniertes Zertifikat" for "self-signed
> certificate", honestly I don't know if it's ok ;-)
>
Self-signed means that the certificate is signed by its creator, not
that its signed by itself right ?
Because at first impulse you would translate „certificate signed by itself”.
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Alexandru Szasz
Axel Hecht
Axel Hecht
> Il 11-03-2009 13:32, Axel Hecht ha scritto:
>> commonly used terms of that concept in your language. At least the
>> German one looked like not ("selbst unterschrieben" is a literal
>> translation that I find confusing).
> glossary (maybe you already know this resource):
> http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/default.mspx
>
> For German I get "Selbstsigniertes Zertifikat" for "self-signed
> certificate", honestly I don't know if it's ok ;-)
I wouldn't call MS a authoritative source of terminology, but it's sure
a good data point to check in with. I wonder if they have a web api for
that, too.
Thanks for the pointer
Axel
Robert Kaiser
> Il 11-03-2009 13:32, Axel Hecht ha scritto:
>> commonly used terms of that concept in your language. At least the
>> German one looked like not ("selbst unterschrieben" is a literal
>> translation that I find confusing).
> glossary (maybe you already know this resource):
> http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/default.mspx
>
> For German I get "Selbstsigniertes Zertifikat" for "self-signed
> certificate", honestly I don't know if it's ok ;-)
where "signiert" is a synonym to "unterschrieben" and both mean
"signed", so I don't really see an error there ;-)
Robert Kaiser
Axel Hecht
certErrorTrust_SelfSigned=Dem Zertifikat wird nicht vertraut, weil es
selbst unterschrieben wurde.
conveys the message for you? I don't think that "unterschreiben" is a
synonym for signing in the context of crypo, tbh, but that might lead
the discussion off-topic. Or not.
Axel
Robert Kaiser
> certErrorTrust_SelfSigned=Dem Zertifikat wird nicht vertraut, weil es
> selbst unterschrieben wurde.
>
> conveys the message for you? I don't think that "unterschreiben" is a
> synonym for signing in the context of crypo, tbh, but that might lead
> the discussion off-topic. Or not.
I fail to see a better variant, even if that one has its deficiencies.
Security messages are hard to translate in many cases, this seems to be
one (even from one Germanic language to the other, I can't think of how
hard it must be for other language families).
Robert Kaiser