Add Russian translation

[ponfertato]

Greetings! Sketched out a translation into Russian, as a base language was used #3552 with my corrections and additions. If there are any conflicts in the translation, welcome feedback!

[pfrazee]

Thank you so much @ponfertato! Do you happen to know any other russian speakers who could review this?

[ponfertato]

Thank you so much @ponfertato! Do you happen to know any other russian speakers who could review this?

There is no one in particular at the moment, I have requested help from the Bluesky audience, it could probably take a while to get there 👀

[DearFox]

Thank you so much @ponfertato! Do you happen to know any other russian speakers who could review this?

There is no one in particular at the moment, I have requested help from the Bluesky audience, it could probably take a while to get there 👀

I'd love to help with this, but it would be cool to see the translation directly in the interface. Perhaps you could publish messages.js for this translation, I'll try to locally replace one of the links like "https://bsky.app/static/js/src/locale/locales/en/messages.js" with the translation file, or something like that.

[ponfertato]

messages.js like "https://bsky.app/static/js/src/locale/locales/en/messages.js"

Greetings, I'm not sure why you need .js, there's a .po file with the translation 👀 https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/locale/locales/en/messages.po or the one that is now the translation: https://github.com/potatoenergy/social-app/blob/main/src/locale/locales/ru/messages.po

[DearFox]

messages.js like "https://bsky.app/static/js/src/locale/locales/en/messages.js"

Greetings, I'm not sure why you need .js, there's a .po file with the translation 👀 https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/src/locale/locales/en/messages.po or the one that is now the translation: https://github.com/potatoenergy/social-app/blob/main/src/locale/locales/ru/messages.po

Oh, I just saw that I gave a link to 404. I don’t understand much about how translations work, but in fact on the bsky site translations in the .po format are not used. Instead, they are turned into a js file with json inside. My idea was to locally replace one of the translations for the bsky.app site with this one, but I don't think I can use .po for this. Here is an example of English and Ukrainian translation: en: https://bsky.app/static/js/521.f870cbb6.chunk.js uk: https://bsky.app/static/js/889.125c76ab.chunk.js

Well, or am I just wrong, and is there some easier way to try out the translation directly on the site, rather than reading the translation strings?

[ponfertato]

Here is an example of English and Ukrainian translation

Ahh, I see your point. The point is that this translation is currently used in the bsky fork. I plan to add it to the source code of the project in order to build it into the main product in the future. You can familiarize yourself with the .po file. There are links to the lines of code that have been translated, for example:

#: src/view/com/threadgate/WhoCanReply.tsx:158
msgid "<0/> members"
msgstr "<0/> участников"

Where msgid is the original string and msgstr is its Russian translation, link: https://github.com/potatoenergy/social-app/blob/11e63802ec493aa1e0efd403168489359b777a36/src/locale/locales/ru/messages.po#L29C1-L31C25

[DearFox]

I tried to compile your fork, but it seems there are some problems with the paths for ru localization.

Exporting with Webpack...
Failed to compile
ModuleNotFoundError: Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './locales/ru/messages' in 'E:\Git\social-app\src\locale'
ModuleNotFoundError: Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './locales/ru/messages' in 'E:\Git\social-app\src\locale'

In all other languages ​​I get a messages.js file next to messages.po, but not in ru

[DearFox]

I tried to compile your fork, but it seems there are some problems with the paths for ru localization.

Exporting with Webpack...
Failed to compile
ModuleNotFoundError: Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './locales/ru/messages' in 'E:\Git\social-app\src\locale'
ModuleNotFoundError: Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './locales/ru/messages' in 'E:\Git\social-app\src\locale'

In all other languages ​​I get a messages.js file next to messages.po, but not in ru

I couldn't find what the problem was, but I was able to replace one of the translations with ru, so that yarn created messages.js, after which I used "Add script override" on one of the js files containing the translation and replaced locally the original translation translation to this one. So it seems like it worked. I can describe in more detail how I did it and share the file with the translation if you also want to try the Russian translation in your browser.

[DearFox]

Several edits/suggestions for translation. "Оповещение" > "Уведомления" "Предпочтения" > "Нравится" "Эл. адреса" > "Эл. почта"

And it seems that there is a part of the stock for which there is no translation at the moment (as well as the lines themselves).

[DearFox]

I wrote a small guide on how you can try translation directly to bsky.app: https://github.com/potatoenergy/social-app/pull/2#issuecomment-2138363991 (it's in russian) I hope this will help improve the translation before adding it to the site.

[surfdude29]

I don't know how close the translation is to being complete but Paul mentioned yesterday that he will be merging translation updates later today for the 1.85 release:

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3ku27qzw7ss2d

[ponfertato]

From the end to the last correction I manually rechecked the translation taking into account the new lines, physically I hardly have time to fix everything by the release...

[surfdude29]

From the end to the last correction I manually rechecked the translation taking into account the new lines, physically I hardly have time to fix everything by the release...

No pressure at all, it's ready when it's ready, I just wanted to give you a heads up in case it was almost there :)

There are over 1400 strings in the app now, so it's a big job! 😮‍💨

[ponfertato]

In all other languages ​​I get a messages.js file next to messages.po, but not in ru

Turned on the language assembly in Here is the last built file with all edits and with all translated lines: https://gist.github.com/ponfertato/e2cf7dd15d936ceed71d30619dd8859e

[pfrazee]

No rush at all. Yall just let me know when it's ready! ❤️

[DearFox]

Are there any updates on this translation?

[surfdude29]

With the caveat that I apologise for jumping in here again with unsolicited advice: I would suggest the localization is merged as-is.

There has already been a lot of feedback and many suggestions have been incorporated from several reviewers. In any localization there will always be some translations that could be improved or tweaked, and once the localization is actually available to use in the app you will get a lot of feedback from Russian speakers on what those are and the focus can then switch to refining and improving the translations further.

[ponfertato]

Okay, I've made edits again due to the latest changes in the branch. Rechecked - the translation is going to a working file. @pfrazee can you accept our translation into Russian?

(Further edits will probably be needed, but the main translation is already ready ✌️)

[surfdude29]

You all probably know this already but in case not: you can try out the translation now on the dev server:

https://main.bsky.dev/settings/language

And of course it will be available on bsky.app in version 1.91, released in a few days' time hopefully.

[tkusano]

It seems that the file src/components/hooks/dates.ts does not contain ru.

[surfdude29]

It seems that the file src/components/hooks/dates.ts does not contain ru.

@tkusano Good spot, I opened #5220 👍