[sword-devel] Localisation of front-end apps

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:54 PM Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems Bibletime also uses transifex.
>
> It sure seems like there's a lot of duplication here.. is it possible to
> somehow produce a Crosswire UI translation table instead of 8-10 app
> translation tables?
>

This has been a question I've pondered, as well. Could there be a potential
for multiple of our apps to support the same set of translations?

Heck, could there even be a general open source translation library for the
many common strings that modern UIs have. OK, Cancel, Edit, Open, Save,
Help.....

--Greg

>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:34 PM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> 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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