[sword-devel] Localisation of front-end apps

[Tuomas Airaksinen]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:34 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.
>

Base text in transifex is English. English (UK) in transifex is a
placeholder for language corrections in original english text (I'm not
native speaker, so there probably are (a lot of) errors in the original
English). Though nobody has contributed to that yet (would here be anyone
willing to do that?).

And we know that our friend *Martin Denham* is British.
>
> Even so, it's also apparent that many major languages have less than *70*
> (United States)
> *%* as a score, with even *Spanish* having now dropped just below this
> threshold.
>

Please note that you should view the completeness of "And Bible -
strings.xml" resource, rather than all files (play store text, jsword
biblenames etc.). And we are just on the edge of new 3.3 release and are
still waiting for some translators to update their translations. But it's
true that some languages need more active/committed maintainers.




>
> 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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