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[Dominique Margot <Dominique.Margot AT uclouvain.be>]

Le 12/04/17 à 16:36, Stefan Winter a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
>> After downloading a CAT tool, in the french page beginning with "
>> Bienvenue à bord de la communauté des utilisateurs eduroam! ", there are
>> some typos:
>>
>> de vous connecter à internet -> de vous connecter à *Internet*
>> et autre lieux autour du monde. -> et *autres* lieux autour du monde.
>> tout ce que vous avez a faire -> tout ce que vous avez *à* faire
>> ou pour totu autre renseignement, -> ou pour *tout* autre renseignement,
> 
> I'm cc'ing the French translation coordinator for CAT. The next version
> of CAT (and earliest opportunity to pick up the changes) will not be
> before another six months probably.
> 
>> one possible improvement, but I understand it is more work:
>> de Université catholique de Louvain, -> de *l'*Université catholique de
> 
> This is indeed "impossible". Changing sentences dynamically depending on
> grammar rules for a variable content is beyond the scope of a simple
> technical translation.
> 
> If there is a way to construct the sentence so that it's grammatically
> correct regardless of the organisation name then that would of course
> fix the issue.
> 
> For example, I could imagine:
> 
> de *l'organisation* $FOO
> 
> then irrespective of $FOO, the sentence would be correct?

Yes and no.  I do not believe it would be well welcomed by others, that
can accomodate the current version.

Forget about it, it was just a cosmetic issue, not a functionnal one.


> 
>> Is it allowed to download all eduroam CAT files to a local server in our
>> university, so that those files will be available to a RFC1918 IP
>> address space ?  (before being authenticated by eduroam servers)
>>
>> How do others institutions handle that problem ? some hints ?
> 
> That's perfectly allowed.

Good to know.

Thank you Stefan.


> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
>

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