Comment 5 for bug 1867069

Hi Guido & Costales. I found, digging /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gufw.mo that this real bug was workarounded in at least one French string translation : they translated "Home" as "Dossier personnel" (note the blank space), but in the GUI it shows "Dossier_personnel" and I don't know where the underscore comes from (BTW this is a bad translation that seems made by either something automatic or by one that doesn't understand the context, should be Maison/Domicile (Casa) and further is too long for the embedded length check). So for Italian it may be IN_ENTRATA and IN_USCITA.

Although, for a project that is targeted to unskilled users AND is mainly a GUI, AND addresses security concerns, I feel costales opinion about not changing code because of a single one language issue (I'd add "ATM") reveals poor understanding of what languages are : to the sake of targeted audience, natural languages specifics should always be respected, not assuming/forcing one source word will match one target word. Boundaries should be whole phrases, or word definition should include any printable character plus white space. Your point that translation should NOT break the code is the definitive reason. The funny thing is there are many Italian names in this bug subscribers list... that the package maintainer is another Italian name, Devid Antonio Filoni, according to Synaptic in Trusty.
I found contact addresses of translators in the .mo file, you maybe try to PM them:
" Alessandro Ghione https://launchpad.net/~alex81\n"
" Alessandro Menti https://launchpad.net/~elgaton\n"
" Aliak https://launchpad.net/~aliak-93\n"
" Andrea Luciano Damico https://launchpad.net/~lehti\n"
" Claudio Arseni https://launchpad.net/~claudio.arseni\n"
" Devid Antonio Filoni https://launchpad.net/~d.filoni\n"
" Edoardo Vanin https://launchpad.net/~edoardo-vanin\n"
" Gianluca https://launchpad.net/~albatrosslive\n"
" Gualtiero https://launchpad.net/~gualtiero-testa\n"
" Guybrush88 https://launchpad.net/~guybrush\n"
" Luca Ferretti https://launchpad.net/~elle.uca\n"
" Lvcio https://launchpad.net/~lvcio\n"
" Mario Gatti https://launchpad.net/~parismarioinformatique\n"
" Wonderfulheart https://launchpad.net/~wonderfulheart\n"
" costales https://launchpad.net/~costales\n"
" flux https://launchpad.net/~luigimarco\n"
" giulianom89 https://launchpad.net/~giulianom89\n"
" lang-it https://launchpad.net/~lang-it\n"
" mattia.b89 https://launchpad.net/~mattia-b89\n"
" rudy79 https://launchpad.net/~rudy79"