translation: meaning of 'magazine' in winerror string

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Sun Mar 4 10:07:17 CST 2012


On 03/04/2012 05:32 AM, Fernando Martins wrote:
> the po file contains
>
> #: winerror.mc:1541
> msgid "The magazine is not present.\n"
>
> Originally I assumed "magazine" was meant as a sort of storage since the
> typical meaning of "periodical publication" would not seem to make much
> sense in the context of a wine error.
>
> However, other translations do indeed choose the concept of "periodical".
>
> Could I get an explanation of what is meant in the string?
>
> Also, this is not an isolated issue. It would be useful if screenshots of
> the original English dialog boxes, etc would be made available. Maybe a
> project for the Summer of Code? I mean, to setup an infrastructure to
> associate lines in po to available corresponding screenshots?

Apparently this is ERROR_MAGAZINE_NOT_PRESENT/STATUS_MAGAZINE_NOT_PRESENT 
errors. Wine doesn't currently produce this error.

Google only points to all sorts of malware when asked about this error code.

Vitaliy



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