[sword-devel] Fr locale - Bishop [was: Mobile App Translators - Help Wanted]

Troy A. Griffitts scribe at crosswire.org
Tue May 28 15:03:00 MST 2019 

Well, any other testers reporting success or failure with the apk from
the link below?  It "works for me"(tm). :)

Let me know if you have trouble, what your Android device is and version
of OS, and if possible, include a logcat capture of the failure.

Troy


On 5/28/19 1:16 PM, Cyrille wrote:
> Black screen with the new release :)
>
> Good night.
>
> Il 28/05/2019 20:02, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>
>> New beta with French locale available at the usual place:
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/~scribe/bishop.apk
>>
>> Thank you Cyrille and Dominique for your time and contributions!
>>
>> Let me know how it looks,
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
>> On 5/28/19 9:27 AM, Cyrille wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 28/05/2019 18:08, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> OK, looking into this, it looks like someone has contributed a
>>>> fr_abbrev-utf8.conf:
>>>>
>>>> # Provided by yvand <yvand.sword at gmail.com>, Cyrille
>>>> <lafricain79 at gmail.com>, domcox  <dominique at corbex.org>
>>>>
>>> Yes it is :)
>>>>
>>>> and has spend some time investigating this.  It has entries
>>>> different from what Fr. Cyrille attached in the last email.  So as
>>>> not to lose the work done by all of these contributors, I will
>>>> spend the time to reformat a [Prev Abbrevs] section from the data
>>>> in this file.
>>>>
>>> Ok thank you. I tried the French localization with Bishop, but I
>>> failed. Even creating the sword folder on th sdcard. I will wait the
>>> next release.
>>>>
>>>> Troy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/28/19 8:28 AM, Cyrille wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Il 28/05/2019 16:59, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>>>>> Hi Fr. Cyrille,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While I appreciate your efforts, this is still not what I need.
>>>>>> Your text below is not cut and pastable into the fr utf8 locale.
>>>>>> Your abbreviations are upper case. You have spaces between the =
>>>>>> sign. I am not sure the fr_abbrevs file you reference is utf8. 
>>>>> Yes it is I'm speaking about the SOURCES of Sword. You can found
>>>>> the abbr file in it.
>>>>>> While I could spend 30 minutes and find the answers and guess a
>>>>>> little and fix this, I would rather contributors follow the
>>>>>> template I sent or I will be spending many 30 minutes fixing.
>>>>>> Thank you for your contribution this far!
>>>>> New file attached.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I you wait a little bit I will send you the it-utf8.conf too.
>>>>>>     I suggest to keep the complet english string in the conf for.
>>>>>>     It is easier for translator to have the text near.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Il 28/05/2019 00:18, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>>>>>>     Dear Fr. Cyrille, On your phone it should be located at
>>>>>>>     /sdcard/sword/uilocales.d/.  If that folder doesn't exist,
>>>>>>>     you should be able to create it with a file manager on your
>>>>>>>     phone, then place your locale .conf file in there.  If you
>>>>>>>     have a removable sdcard, you should be able to plug it into
>>>>>>>     your computer and create the /sword/uilocales.d/ path from
>>>>>>>     the root of the card and copy your locale .conf file in
>>>>>>>     there and place the sdcard back in your phone.  Be sure to
>>>>>>>     kill Bishop and restart it for it to pick up your new locale
>>>>>>>     file. As soon as I get your full set of French abbreviations
>>>>>>>     (or from Dominique), I can rebuild the .apk with your French
>>>>>>>     submission and we can all see how it works. Hope this helps,
>>>>>>>     Troy On 5/27/19 1:17 PM, Cyrille wrote:
>>>>>>>>     Il 26/05/2019 21:46, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>>>>>>>>     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.
>>>>>>>>     Please can you give more information about this place on
>>>>>>>>     android? I look for uilocales.d folder, I don't found it. I
>>>>>>>>     tried to create it in the sword folder I found but I
>>>>>>>>     doesn't work.
>>>>>>>>>     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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>>>>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. 
>>>>>
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