What to do with "invalid" translations in 2.1.7

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What do you mean with invalid? missing items or something?
I've fixed the it_IT for 2.1.6 and posted in some topic, i'd be happy to allineate it to en_US 2.1.7 too. Just need to know if it's only a missing items problem.
Loadable language packs? good idea.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Jules]

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Jules wrote:What do you mean with invalid? missing items or something?
I've fixed the it_IT for 2.1.6 and posted in some topic, i'd be happy to allineate it to en_US 2.1.7 too. Just need to know if it's only a missing items problem.
Loadable language packs? good idea.

Here is the dump of problems with it_IT in 2.1.7. Please tell me if there is any questions regarding this report.


[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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I'll try to write a documentation on how to create a translation for a new language, and how to maintain an old one.

A new strategy for translations will probably not be introduced in 2.1.7. This means that unsupported languages for this version most likely will be removed (If Rafael agrees ).
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Hi,

I've checked tools/i18n/bin/tValidator.pl into cvs. This is a small perl script that reports the quality of a translation.

The sad news is that we only have 3 "valid" translations per now
(pt_PT, en_US, and nb_NO).

I suggest that we remove all the others for now. They can be reintroduced if someone fixes them.

But I think that we only should have en_US in JForum core, and then introduce language packs like phpBB.

It is impossible to synchronize all translations with each release.

What do you think?

/Jakob
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Hi

I did go through the sv_SV language file and Brrrr. It's so full of misspellings and semantic errors that I strongly recommend that it is removed.

It doesn't reflect the rest of your extraordinary good work!

Keep it up
../M
[originally posted on jforum.net by Briggs]

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Briggs wrote:Hi

I did go through the sv_SV language file and Brrrr. It's so full of misspellings and semantic errors that I strongly recommend that it is removed.

It doesn't reflect the rest of your extraordinary good work!

Keep it up
../M

Ok, it's removed from 2.1.7 now. Briggs, please feel free to do a new translation I've just finished the norwegian one. Would you really like the this to be the only scandinavian translation for JForum? hihi :P
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Well,

pt_BR is very well translated (I did it :P), but it does not have all terms translated. However, it should be included in the main build - and probably this applies to other translations as well.

So, the .pl file is interesting (would be more if it was written in java - can ben beanshell or anything like that).

I completely agree that a better documentation about translations is very necessary.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Rafael Steil wrote:So, the .pl file is interesting (would be more if it was written in java - can ben beanshell or anything like that).
Rafael

I have looked into translation tools. Hopefully I'll find someone good, so we can use that for v3. So I don't think I'll write a validator in Java until we have decided on how to this in the future.


[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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Rafael Steil wrote:Well,

pt_BR is very well translated (I did it :P), but it does not have all terms translated. However, it should be included in the main build - and probably this applies to other translations as well.

Here is a list of the translations that are removed. People can post a message here if they have strong arguments why one of those should be reintroduced https://coderanch.com/t/576765 .
I think that the translations "shipped" with JForum must be 100% translations. All other will be released as language-packs.


[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]

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lazee wrote:

Briggs wrote:Hi

I did go through the sv_SV language file and Brrrr. It's so full of misspellings and semantic errors that I strongly recommend that it is removed.

It doesn't reflect the rest of your extraordinary good work!

Keep it up
../M

Ok, it's removed from 2.1.7 now. Briggs, please feel free to do a new translation I've just finished the norwegian one. Would you really like the this to be the only scandinavian translation for JForum? hihi :P

The Norwegian language does a lousy job as the only Scandinavian language, agreed! (even though I'm 1/4 Norwegian)

Sure I'll help. Lot's of things going on right now. So I might have to wait until JF version 3 gets out
[originally posted on jforum.net by Briggs]

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Briggs wrote:Sure I'll help. Lot's of things going on right now. So I might have to wait until JF version 3 gets out

Great. I will focus on easier support for translations in 3. I'm thinking of something like separate language-packs, and translation tools.

Translating JForum should be something that is fun, and easy to maintain.
[originally posted on jforum.net by lazee]