[sword-devel] Bishop Locale Translator Help

Troy A. Griffitts scribe at crosswire.org
Mon Sep 20 13:39:32 EDT 2021


Dear volunteers who have helped with translating Bishop,

We are looking for help choosing a "preferred Bible" for each locale, 
set by adding a new string to the translation file with a key simply as 
preferredBible=

Can you help?

Bishop started off by shipping a very small (~3MB) APK with only the 
application, and upon first run, it would ask permission to download a 
basic set of modules and then proceed to grab resources from our 
repositories.

We later switched to shipping this basic set (KJV, StrongsGreek, 
StrongsHebrew, SME) bundled within the APK.

We've discovered advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, so now 
we're going to try a hybrid.

We're still planning to ship the basic module set within the APK-- only 
increases the size to total ~14MB, but we're planning to ask the user 
for their preferred locale upon first startup and download some 
language-specific resources for them.

And for this approach, we need your help to determine "the most widely 
accepted" Bible for the locale.

Some locales are also behind on translation. If you can help by 
selecting and adding a preferredBible entry, and possibly updating the 
locale for the latest strings located at the bottom of the template 
file, that would be so appreciated.  The locale files are located here:

https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/-/tree/master/www/bundledResources/uilocales.d

and the template here:

https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/-/blob/master/i18n-template.conf

Thank you for sharing together in service,

Troy




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