Cylinder vs. tank -

[Martin Měřinský]

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.