| Summary: | "No items available" is it awkward | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | vimal kumar <vimalibre> |
| Component: | OPAC | Assignee: | Owen Leonard <oleonard> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | veron |
| Version: | 3.12 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
| Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
| Text to go in the release notes: | Version(s) released in: | ||
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Description
vimal kumar
2012-12-04 06:20:43 UTC
As a non native speaker, my understanding of 'item' is more generic than 'copy'.
I did a Google search on 'library item borrow' and 'library copy borrow' ('borrow' to filter out non librarian meanings of 'library'), and I found that the use of 'item' is the common use for libraries.
An other point would be that changing the wording for 'item' would have a huge impact on the whole Koha system, because 'item' is used everywhere.
Any other opinions?
If you need a different wording for "item" you could use separate translation files (.po files) for this variant, see discussion on IRC channel: http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-12-05#i_1139463 See: http://translate.koha-community.org/ We did this for the Swiss spelling of the German language (de-CH) |