translation: meaning of 'magazine' in winerror string

[Fernando Martins]

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?

[Vitaliy Margolen]

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

[Lauri Kenttä]

On 2012-03-04 14:32, Fernando Martins wrote:
> #: winerror.mc:1541
>  msgid "The magazine is not present.\n"

The original Finnish text is something like this:
"The element belongs to a collection that does not exist."

The MS translations are full of mistakes too, so this isn't necessarily 
the right answer, but this certainly makes more sense than the 
"periodical publication".
> However, other translations do indeed choose the concept of 
> "periodical".

The existing translations may very well be wrong in cases like this, as 
I recently pointed out.
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-February/094363.html

[Akihiro Sagawa]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:32:16 +0100, Fernando Martins wrote:
> 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?

I guessed this "magazine" means multi CD changer's cartridge when I
translated this message to Japanese.
However I haven't met this error or message on native Windows PC.

This document may help you to understand the concept of magazine:
http://www.epicycle.org.uk/pioneercd/User%20Guide.pdf#page=29
linked from http://www.epicycle.org.uk/pioneercd/pioneer.htm

Akihiro Sagawa