On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 07:34 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote: > On 29/11/2017 00:31, Tim Wootton wrote: > > On 28/11/17 20:18, Bill Perry wrote: > > > It appears that Wikipedia pushes the term "Diving Cylinder" > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_cylinder > > > And in their terminology section, they say: > > > > > > "The term "diving cylinder" tends to be used by gas equipment > > > engineers, manufacturers, support professionals, and divers > > > speaking British English. "Scuba tank" or "diving tank" is more > > > often used colloquially by non-professionals and native speakers > > > of > > > American English" > > > > If that's the case perhaps we could use "tank" and just replace > > "tank" > > with "cylinder" in the UK English translation > > I suggest that the term goes with the units preference in the > Preferences panel. If the preference is set to Imperial, then use > tank. > For the rest of the world that does not use imperial, if the > preference is set to metric then use cylinder.
Please no. Units has nothing to do with cylinder/tank think. And I personaly do not think, translating cylinder/tank is worth the work. Probably every diver understands both terms. For our UI, choose one and be consistent with it. I don't care which one will it be. Martin M. _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
