[Official announcement] Translate Sailfish OS: elections of community languages & linguists

asked 2016-05-12 20:30:30 +0300

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updated 2020-09-02 11:36:43 +0300

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(this thread is reviewed on a monthly basis)

Q: How can I suggest a new language?
A: Add an answer below, if you have checked it hasn't been requested yet.

Q: My language was added to the translation tool, great thanks! How can others and myself enjoy translating it the most?
A: The answer is here.

Q: My language hasn't been added yet :(
A: Ensure it has a coordinator assigned, and if not, nominate yourself. Then we'll add your language to the tool.

Q: What is a coordinator?
A: The answer is here.

Q: How can I test the translation on my device?
A: Ping @martonmiklos and ask to build an rpm for your language. If desired, the localisation packages will be published on OpenRepos. You could also manage the RPM build by yourself. Here you can find the scripts used for building the current packages.

Cheers!
Jarkko, Pami, Sim, & Community
Your Jolla L10n Team

List of nominated languages :
(in alphabetical order - click on link to vote or volunteer yourself as coordinator for us to add that language)
• Artificial languages (Pirate, Klingon etc)
• Cantonese (Hong Kong)
• Dhivehi (Maldivian)
• Georgian
• Hebrew
• Luxembourgish
• Malay
• Sanskrit
• Serbian (Latin)
• Sorbian (Lower)
• Sorbian (Upper)

Added - @coordinator(s):
• Afrikaans (Southern Africa) - @Nova @WilliePre
• Arabic - @mad_dev
• Belarusian (Taraskievica)
• Bulgarian - @deloptes, @HeinrichJolla, spaceumko
• Catalan - Download - @juzzz
• Dutch (Belgium) - Download - @nthn
• Esperanto
• Frisian - @Fjoerfoks (pending Jolla account username)
• Galician - @pakoR
• Indonesian - Download - @fpermana
• Irish
• Japanese - Download - @kenya888, @ttpr
• Korean - Download - @peremen
• Latvian - @akerran
• Lithuanian - @sledges
• Macedonian
• Occitan - @Quenti
• Serbian (Cyrillic) - @saleki
• Slovak - @zemiacsik, @lhodas
• Tatar - @aserg, rgilmi, Marat_Elmet, @a.khorkov
• Tajik - @Victor Ibragimov
• Thai - @TinLethax (pending Jolla account username)
• Turkmen - @Victor Ibragimov
• Ukrainian - @Igorion, @Teodor
• Welsh

Officially supported
Appear in Settings | Languages, and available in downloadable device images, that's why the progress needs to hit 100% during every translation round in order not to delay SFOS updates. A keyboard also needs to be provided (through this link)
Please volunteer to coordinate them too!
• Chinese (China traditional)
• Chinese (Hong Kong)
• Chinese (Taiwan) - @zerngjia
• Czech - @xmlich02, @Karry
• Danish - @Louis
• Dutch - @nthn, @Jarno
• English (UK)
• English (US)
• Estonian - @krs, @werdinand
• Finnish
• French - @cartron
• German - @ejjoman, @rozgwi
• Greek - @dglent
• Hungarian - @martonmiklos
• Italian - @fravaccaro
• Languages of India
• Bengali - @biraj
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Malayalam - @drpradeeprkrishnan
• Marathi - @bhavin192, @vmdhhh
• Panjabi/Punjabi
• Tamil
• Telugu - @kskarthik
• Norwegian Bokmål - @emva
• Polish - @atlochowski
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazil) - @SailFisherMan
• Romanian - @rtr2001, @fnkkio
• Russian
• Slovenian - @sponka, jbartl, @Filip K.
• Spanish - @carmenfdezb
• Swedish- @ljo
• Turkish - @jiit, @maidis
• Vietnamese - @Beo96

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... tempted to propose "Bork" : active on users birthdays ;)

launchpad ( 2016-05-13 16:17:10 +0300 )edit

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Is there any way to request another l10n related improvements? Like these two issues: https://together.jolla.com/question/128661/localization-aware-date-display/https://together.jolla.com/question/128428/people-app-start-first-character-sorting/

martonmiklos ( 2016-05-15 22:26:25 +0300 )edit

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Add Catalan (more tha 7 million people speaks, reads and writes)

darius ( 2016-05-17 12:36:06 +0300 )edit

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@darius, please add languages suggestions as answers below, thanks! :)

sledges ( 2016-05-25 13:18:11 +0300 )edit

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@sledges Is there an ETA of when the proposed languages will start appearing on the tool?

ApB ( 2016-05-25 16:45:57 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-08-10 22:48:08 +0300

AnonUser10082
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updated 2017-02-04 21:20:23 +0300

Georgian

My native language is not listed. Georgian is my native language. Sailfish OS does not recognize my native language fonts, nor does it have keyboard for it. I have fonts for my language installed on my nexus 4 Sailfish os 2.0.1.11 and they are working well. Also i created keyboard files for Georgian and it works perfectly in Sailfish OS. here are pictures. There are no big and little letters in my language. Only few of them change with shift key. So here is it With shift pressed image description

Without shift image description

How can i contact jolla comunity or someone who can put this fonts and keyboard in this system. Of course i can make little program to do this but it would be better if OS supported my language natively. WP10, Ubuntu phone and Android do support it.

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If you have a keyboard and you want to contribute contact Pekka Vuorella. See this thread https://together.jolla.com/question/124266/keyboard-contributions-for-inclusion-in-sfos/

For the fonts i have no idea.

ApB ( 2016-08-11 11:02:10 +0300 )edit

I contacted him. There are some issues. Fonts for my language do not have licence they are kinda free, nobody knows who made them. You can download them from sites. For example www.fonts.ge. I contacted administrator of that site and he told me this. But looks like they can't add Georgian keyboard to this system. I do not know what to do.

AnonUser10082 ( 2017-02-04 21:26:32 +0300 )edit

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With a high chance of being wrong the font jolla uses is Droid which i think has a Georgian support.

ApB ( 2017-02-04 23:23:30 +0300 )edit

But when i installed SFOS until i had installed these fonts it could not show me many georgian sites text. After installing these fonts it displayed everything that was on georgian on that sites. I do not undartand much in fonds and unicodes but i can tell that if SFOS has georgian fonts it still needs this fonts to fully support my language.

AnonUser10082 ( 2017-02-04 23:46:55 +0300 )edit

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Droid having georgian support and the georgian font being installed in the phone is two different things. If you find Droid Sans Georgian ttf and install it i suspect it will work.

ApB ( 2017-02-04 23:56:12 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-08-11 08:20:00 +0300

Ongkut
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updated 2016-09-23 13:59:54 +0300

sledges

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Thai

What about Thai language and keyboard?There are more than 60 million people in Thailand and around the world using Thai language.

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https://together.jolla.com/question/124266/keyboard-contributions-for-inclusion-in-sfos/ for keyboards.

ApB ( 2016-08-11 11:03:13 +0300 )edit

Thai added! @Ongkut, would you like to coordinate? :)

sledges ( 2016-09-23 14:19:05 +0300 )edit

Interesting,I'm Thai too.It would great if I can help for translating !

TinLethax ( 2019-01-17 03:38:49 +0300 )edit

@TinLethax, great! I'll make you the coordinator if you send me your Jolla account name, because currently there is none. By the way, even without this role, one can always feel free to create suggestions: https://translate.sailfishos.org/th/

sledges ( 2019-02-01 00:07:03 +0300 )edit

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answered 2017-06-30 09:28:28 +0300

carmenfdezb

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updated 2017-06-30 19:52:20 +0300

I've seen there are not coordinators for Spanish language, if you want you can add me to this group to support Jolla. I've made some suggestions in SailfishOS and I've translated to Spanish a lot of apps via Transifex and Github

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@carmendezfb many thanks for coming forth! You are now the coordinator \o/

sledges ( 2017-07-11 15:50:33 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-05-27 02:24:07 +0300

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updated 2016-05-27 08:56:43 +0300

raketti

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Urdu

Around 200 million people speak it.

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answered 2016-05-27 05:22:20 +0300

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updated 2016-08-18 20:49:38 +0300

WilliePre

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Afrikaans (Southern Africa)

17.5 million people in Southern Africa, speaks, reads and writes it. Afrikaans is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia but there are also Afrikaans language speakers in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland

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I would like to volunteer for the role of coordinator.

WilliePre ( 2018-11-04 22:49:14 +0300 )edit

Hello @WilliePre, apologies for the delay, here is Afrikaans ready for translations: https://translate.sailfishos.org/af

To add you as the coordinator, I'd need your Jolla account username, thanks! :)

sledges ( 2019-02-01 02:46:04 +0300 )edit

Hallo, my Jolla userame WilliePre

WilliePre ( 2019-02-01 09:16:10 +0300 )edit

@WilliePre, you would have to login to https://translate.sailfishos.org at least once for your username to appear there.

sledges ( 2019-02-04 22:31:54 +0300 )edit

@WilliePre, I can now see your username in the portal, and have made you the coordinator.

sledges ( 2019-03-20 14:47:51 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-06-29 11:51:29 +0300

aserg
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Tatar language

Hi! I've got a command that can translate Sailfish OS to tatar language. This language distributed in Russia. More than 5 millon peoples are using it. I can be a coordinator for this process.

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Hi! @sledges, can you add rights to approve translations for these guys from our translation team: 1) Marat_Elmet 2) rgilmi Thanks!

aserg ( 2016-09-15 17:10:20 +0300 )edit

Done enjoy! :)

sledges ( 2016-09-16 03:18:33 +0300 )edit

@sledges, please add rights to approve translations for @a.khorkov He did a lot of work!

aserg ( 2016-10-05 15:10:53 +0300 )edit

@aserg, done as you asked :) Cheers!

sledges ( 2016-10-06 01:14:12 +0300 )edit

Hi @sledges. I have noticed, that in tatar language exists 74 projects. But almost in all projects there are 82-83 packages. So, is it just mistake or smth else? thanks

aserg ( 2016-10-21 12:26:05 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-09-24 02:08:44 +0300

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updated 2016-09-30 00:53:56 +0300

emva

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Norwegian

It was mentioned here that you miss us, so I nominate myself to do some "skippertak", until someone other and or better comes along. (nb-no, bokmål, to be specific)

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You are the best, and you've taken loads of precious time off of our Norwegian sailor \o/ So he can concentrate on developing mission critical things ;)

Mange takk!

sledges ( 2016-10-06 16:37:39 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-09-28 17:31:49 +0300

pavi
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updated 2016-11-21 15:11:13 +0300

Telugu

Telugu is a South Indian language and is the 3rd most spoken language after Hindi and Bengali in India.. @kskarthik is already translating for telugu and I recommend him to be the coordinator.

తెలుగు లో సేయిల్ఫిష్ ని చూడాలని వుంది. 😎

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He already is, for quite some time! ;)

sledges ( 2017-09-20 19:56:30 +0300 )edit

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answered 2017-02-08 23:34:02 +0300

martonmiklos

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To "celebrate" the official release of the 2.1.0 I have packaged all community lang packs from the latest pootle status and updated the openrepos packages. Enjoy and let me know if an update is needed.

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Thanks! Just a small note on the 'all community lang packs' part - the Czech language has 100% (well, 99%, but only because of some empty source strings) of completion too ;-)

nodevel ( 2017-02-09 01:14:19 +0300 )edit

Aye, I wanted to say all maintained by me. :) Czech and Slovak is maintained by @xmlich02

martonmiklos ( 2017-02-09 09:40:31 +0300 )edit

Thanks! There are still a few tiny issues with the translations, such as https://together.jolla.com/question/156387/timestamp-in-email-reply-is-not-completely-accurate-yet/

And the "Ambiences" part still doesn't seem to be translated in the UI, even though all strings are translated on Pootle. ping @sledges

nthn ( 2017-02-09 15:54:44 +0300 )edit

@nthn, @martonmiklos, that is indeed weird. The ID is settings_system-ambiance and they seem to be translated. I'll doublecheck the source codes. E.g. testing on official languages looks OK.

sledges ( 2017-03-14 13:35:47 +0300 )edit

Wait a minute, which part of the UI are you talking about? ;)

sledges ( 2017-03-14 13:39:07 +0300 )edit

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answered 2017-08-08 13:46:04 +0300

Louis

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Danish

I can currently only suggest translation strings but not submit them. How can this be changed?

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Thank you very much for coming back on the Danish language. If you would like to volunteer as coordinator, you will be able to submit them.

sledges ( 2017-08-08 13:47:32 +0300 )edit

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Nice. I would like to :) I've translated tohkbd2, some of CrossOver and a few other projects to Danish to Danish .My speciality is coherent words which they're a lot of in the Danish which needs to be corrected.

Louis ( 2017-08-08 20:48:32 +0300 )edit

Brilliant, you are now the coordinator @Louis, a lot of love is needed in the Danish translations.

sledges ( 2017-08-08 21:12:19 +0300 )edit

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