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Cucurbitacée wrote:Ok, I'll try to list the "problematic" IDs:
All the following ones have a singular or plural problem depending on the value of the variable $1, if it's above 1, it should be plural. I think it can be a problem in English and most probably in other languages too for some of them.

• loadingfn, Fichier $1/$2
• loadingf, Fichier $1 sur $2
• levelsc, Terminé : $1/$2
• levelsce, Niveaux terminés : $1/$2
• levelsbe, Bonus gagnés : $1/$2
• levell, Parties : $1

loadingf= File $1 of $2 <-- where $1 is the number 1
loadingfs= File $1 of $2 <-- where $1 is any number other than 1 (could be zero)

Cucurbitacée wrote:Here are the ones that would require an article that could require an elision or another form to make the text natural to read, and of course in French the articles have gender and number agreement.

• controlsdevice, Contrôles pour $1 : I used the preposition "pour" when I should have use "du", that would become "de la" in feminine form : Contrôles du clavier, Contrôles de la souris.
• keyboardmd, Attribution des touches pour $1, same as above.
• keyboardpd, Appuyez une touche sur $1, same as above.
• keyboardrdRelâchez toutes les touches sur $1, same as above.
• joystickmd, Attribution des bouttons pour $1, same as above.
• joystickpd, Appuyez sur un bouton sur $1, same as above.
• joystickrd, Relâchez tous les boutons sur $1, same as above.

I'm not sure how and if you want to implement it, a common way to do it is to add extra data (GENDER, ARTICLE, ELISION) to the variable and use a special tag before to change the word that would conflict with the variable.

Just finished the Brazilian Portuguese translation, and man... that LITERALLY took me hours to finish. The Brazilian Portuguese translation only had the countries' names, most of dates' names and just a little bit of other things (in most pages it only had ~3 translations). So I basically made 85% of all translations, at once, and took forever

But it is a really cool project, I hope to see it finished eventually. I may use it eventually for my next game. I hope someone also eventually get to make translations easier for game developers, like a library or something. I did something pretty easy for a mod of Mari0, in which I included translations.

So, if anyone gets to make an easily readable translation file eventually, I could make a library to translate AND download language translations/translation updates.

Robin wrote:As this goes on, I get more and more convinced this should be using gettext instead of those ad-hoc solutions.

caldur wrote:Er... would LOVE to contribute, but the problem is I am based in Mainland China and google docs unfortunately is not reachable from behind the GFW....

Sure, extra IDs for plural/singular clarification would work.

Page $1 à $2 (where $1 is the number 1)
Page $1 sur $2 (where $1 is a number other than 1)

Fichier $1 à $2
Fichier $1 sur $2

ivan wrote: Caldur, in case you don't have access to Google docs, here is an ini file for Chinese.
Note that the "date" and "territory" sections are already translated.
Any help with would be of great value!

caldur wrote:Cool. I'm like half-way through the translation, so if time permits (and I'm on a training anyway so I'm pretty sure it does) I can get it done in a couple days.

caldur wrote:One thing I noted, though, that quite a few of the terms are genre or content dependent, so what about separating different components into files, e.g. zh-ui, zh-chess, etc.