[sword-devel] Localisation of front-end apps

[David Haslam]

The transifex figure of 0% strings translated for English (United Kingdom) seems rather bizarre to me.

Even if And Bible were deemed to have been written in English (United States), that would still make little sense.

And we know that our friend Martin Denham is British.

Even so, it's also apparent that many major languages have less than 70% as a score, with even Spanish having now dropped just below this threshold.

Best regards,

David

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On Friday, 29 May 2020 16:54, Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:

> AND Bible has a translation matrix that seems to have momentum.
>
> https://www.transifex.com/mjdenham/andbible/
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:35 AM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>
>> On 5/29/20 11:19 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>
>>> How do you propose that our software, none of which is developed commercially and none of the maintainers of which speak or read/write these languages, go about acquiring localization strings for those languages?
>>
>> A long time ago, it was proposed that Xiphos be driven for translation by some facility on launchpad with which I'm unfamiliar.  As far as I'm aware, not a single new translation resulted from this.  Several of the existing translations are simply decaying slowly over time as the code changes; every time a new dialog or warning or label is added that no one translates, the translations get worse.  I have no idea how to induce would-be translators to enter and take part, even though one of Xiphos' Help selections is an explicit invitation for such translators.
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