[sword-devel] Mobile App Translators - Help Wanted

[David Haslam]

Further along this thread the thorny issue of localised punctuation arose.

This prompts a further question about localising front-end apps.

To what extent (if ever) do we envisage providing support for non-Western digits in references and in how the chapter numbers and verse tags are displayed in each front-end?

For example, would we ever contemplate supporting Thai digits?

Or is our systemic bias toward Western digits too far gone?

Best regards,

David

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On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 20:46, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

> As I mentioned in my previous email.  This past weekend I have spent
> some time internationalizing one of our Android and iOS apps:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop
>
> I have created a "gibberish" translation file for testing, but now am to
> the point that I believe it is mostly complete.  If you might be willing
> to translate this gibberish file into a language with which you are
> natively familiar, I am sure that people group would be very grateful
> for your work, and so would I.  Here is the file for translation.
>
> https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/blob/master/www/bundledResources/uilocales.d/de-utf8.conf
>
> The format should be straighforward to understand.  Generally it is:
>
> English Text=Translated Text
>
> There are a few occasions where buttons are split into 2 lines, e.g.,
>
> Variant Study L1=Variant
>
> Variant Study L2=Study
>
> This should be generally intuitive to figure out while translating.
>
> Finally, there are some very long strings in the "About" screen and
> Install Manager Warning screens which can be seen as the last 10 lines
> or so in the file.  I decided to use shorter keys than the entire
> English text so these have keys like:
>
> App About Header=
>
> App About L1=
>
> App About L2=
>
> I hope you can figure out from my gibberish here what the original
> english actually is.  My giggerish dialect is generally a conversion of
> non-initial vowels to zero (0).  You may need to find these long strings
> in the app if you can't figure out my gibberish.
>
> I will post development bundles with translations included as they come
> in, so you can see how your work looks in the app before we publish the
> next version.  If you'd like to try your work out as you translate, on
> Android, the app will look on your SD card for locales at:
> /sword/uilocales.d/, so if you place your locale file there, it should
> be recognized and available to choose under settings.
>
> A developer preview of 1.2.0 which includes locale support is available
> at: http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk
>
> Thank you for any help.  Blessings,
>
> Troy
>
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