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

Cyrille lafricain79 at gmail.com
Wed May 29 00:27:58 MST 2019



Il 29/05/2019 09:23, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
> Hi Fr. Cyrille,
>
> Are you sure you are downloading the apk from the link provided and
> not the store? Can you try uninstalling the version of bishop on your
> phone first. Make sure it is uninstalled. Then download the apk and
> install the apk.
Yes I did all that. Today I'll travel. See you this evening.
>
> On May 29, 2019 12:13:37 AM MST, Cyrille <lafricain79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Still back screen.
>
>     Il 29/05/2019 02:13, Troy A. Griffitts ha scritto:
>>
>>     OK, sorry guys.  I've fixed a few things, including a strange bug
>>     in the new code I added to handle the [Pref Abbrevs] section,
>>     which I think had to do with C++ temporaries lifespan.  If you
>>     could give it a try again, I would be grateful.
>>
>>     Troy
>>
>>
>>     On 5/28/19 3:03 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>
>>>     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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>>>>>>>>>     my brevity. 
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