Task #1178
Improve translation consistency
Status: | New | % Done: | 0% | |
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Priority: | Normal | |||
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Category: | General | |||
Target version: | 2.78 | |||
OS: | Arch: |
Description
This is mainly a container issue for everything I’ve experienced translating the project to Dutch so far.
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)
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.
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 teamcould 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
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
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.
^7----------------------------------------------------------------------Unnecessary.
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