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Translation problems

asked 2016-11-10 17:33:38 +0300

nodevel gravatar image

updated 2016-11-10 17:35:28 +0300

With the new translation round, I would like to point to couple of problems I have experienced.

99% instead of 100%

See the Czech translation here - all the strings are translated, but it still says 99% instead of 100% without indication why that is the case. Is it the checks?

Wrong checks source

The checks are made according to comparison with the Engineering English source, but according to the Translation Wiki, strings should be never translated from Engineering English. This is very confusing and creates lots of extra work deleting false check warnings. For example, Engineering English has 1 sentence, but English (UK) has 2 sentences - when your translation has 2 sentences as well, you get a warning about wrong number of sentences.

Blank strings and inability to remove checks

Some strings are blank - why are they included in the translation. Also, I am not able to remove failing checks warnings from this string.

Insufficient rights to access this directory.

What does this warning mean? I have failing 'numbers' checks, but cannot access them, because this warning is being shown.

Terminology deleted

With the latest translation round, all the terminology terms had to be translated again. Is this going to happen with each release? Is there any way to back them up?

Thank you.

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answered 2016-11-10 18:52:03 +0300

I think the 99% vs. completed is because the csd component is not added only to the English translations and I think all languages are compared to that.

@sledges will know the answers to the rest of the questions.

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99% is coming from the fact that some strings are to be left empty, that's Sailfish OS wish and Pootle hasn't got a "allowed nil" flag :)

sledges ( 2016-11-10 21:07:21 +0300 )edit
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Your link is exact instance of such "Translate if not default" case: https://translate.sailfishos.org/cs/sailfish-components-contacts-qt5/translate/sailfish_components_contacts_qt5.ts#unit=170044 Comments: Define the order and formatting of address eleme?nts - do not translate the <...> tokens [Only required to change default] Example: "<pobox>, <street>, <city>, <zipcode>, <region>, <country>"</country></region></zipcode></city></street></pobox>

sledges ( 2016-11-10 21:13:20 +0300 )edit

@sledges, oooooh, that explains a lot.

nthn ( 2016-11-10 21:52:40 +0300 )edit
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answered 2016-11-10 21:10:31 +0300

sledges gravatar image

Checks functionality have been overlooked by our testings (went town the priority queue), and until that is fixed I kindly suggest to ignore it :) Please ping us if you feel that those checks are of great significance for you.

Personally when I go through suggestions, pootle underlines with red any punctuation or whitespace problems, and I consider that sufficient.

If inconsistencies are spotted whilst already using the phone, then it's easy to correct them in Pootle, and the more eyes (of users), the better :)

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"Insufficient rights to access this directory." that is part of the bits that we haven't paid much attention, apologies

sledges ( 2016-11-10 21:12:05 +0300 )edit

@sledges Thank you for the detailed reply. I found checks quite handy when trying to find errors in older translations, but they would probably be more useful if checked against the right language :)

nodevel ( 2016-11-13 12:34:35 +0300 )edit
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answered 2016-11-10 21:11:33 +0300

sledges gravatar image

There have been new terms in terminology added this round, and that was I think the first time it happened.

Terms should not disappear, if anything is lost (strings or terms), please inform us and we will in most cases restore them from DB/Git backup/caches/translation memory. Cheers!

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