ET: Legacy Development

This is mainly a container issue for everything I’ve experienced translating the project to Dutch so far.

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Naming¶

A lot of commands use a different naming in console. For example:

• usage: vs type: (also in upper- or lowercase)
• not enabled vs disabled (unnecessary negation)

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Capitalization¶

Especially in menus some options use capitalized names and some do not. This also depends a lot on the target language: in English it’s common but we prefer to use lowercase in Dutch. However, we should maintain a consistent style across all UI components.

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Reduce and remove duplicate phrases¶

Some phrases occur multiple times in the .pot file. This can be a complete sentence or parts of a sentence. For example:

^5You've been removed from the ^4Allies^7 team
^5You've been removed from the ^1Axis^7 team

could be reduced to

^5You've been removed from the ^1%s^7 team

This also happens quite a lot in the obituary list, where there’s a translatable entry for each of the weapons, since they basically consist of

's <weaponname>

A search for the following keywords should find most of these:

• team names (Axis, Allies and spectators)
• weapon names
• class names

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Remove formatting¶

There are a lot of texts that include formatting. Let’s make sure to remove these in order to relief translators with formatting questions.

Remove

• colors
• newlines
• dashes and separations
• indentation spaces/tabs

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Remove untranslatable texts¶

Some texts don’t make sense when you translate them.

usage: ref warn [reason].

The prefix should be translated and the parameters probably. The command itself cannot be translated.

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Unnecessary.