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Serbian translation of the android and desktop app is very bad

Open DavidK004 opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

Description

In the app both Cyrillic and Latin words are mixed (words written with Cyrillic alphabet and words written with Latin alphabet). In Serbian both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets are official but it is not grammatically correct to mix them.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Switch app to Serbian
  2. Go to settings
  3. See mixed Cyrillic and Latin

Actual result:

Mixed alphabets

Expected result:

Using only either Cyrillic or Latin alphabet

Reproduces how often:

Always there

Desktop Brave version:

1.61.120 Chromium: 120.0.6099.234 (Званична верзија) (64-битни)

Android Device details:

  • Install type arm64 v8a
  • Device type Phone
  • Android version: 13

Version/Channel Information:

All channels

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Miscellaneous Information:

DavidK004 avatar Jan 18 '24 18:01 DavidK004

Same Brave desktop 1.65.123 Chromium: 124.0.6367.91 (Official Build) (64-bit)] and Brave Android 1.64.122 Screenshot 2024-04-29 092925

GKid94 avatar Apr 29 '24 07:04 GKid94

It's been this way for years. This community post from almost three years ago is a good summary of the current state.

I started considering other browsers because it bothers me and looks very unprofessional. That's why I'm willing to help improve the Serbian translation by joining the localization team. Please contact me regarding this; I already sent you a message on Transifex.

Susexe avatar May 07 '24 07:05 Susexe

cc: @AndyAnds265

bsclifton avatar May 07 '24 16:05 bsclifton

@DavidK004, thank you for bringing this up. We are in the process of re-organizing our localization efforts. This will entail addressing multiple language related issues such as fonts and locale mapping. We will address this issue as well. I appreciate you bringing it to our attention

AndyAnds265 avatar May 08 '24 15:05 AndyAnds265

@AndyAnds265, could you respond to my request? Aside from the issue of mixing scripts, the translation itself isn't very good. I can assist with it.

Susexe avatar Jun 05 '24 21:06 Susexe

@Susexe - thank you for bringing this one up again. It's on my radar, in fact I was thinking about this the other day. We're not ready to work on this yet as we are migrating to a new system. Once we do, we're aiming to include the options for both Cyrillic and Latin based scripts. I cannot confirm this will be the case yet but it's what I'd like to do and plan to do.

AndyAnds265 avatar Jun 05 '24 22:06 AndyAnds265

@Susexe - just providing an update. We're already live with both Serbian (Latin) and Serbian (Cyrillic) options on Brave Search. Please feel free to check them out at search.brave.com.

We are working actively on the fix for the Android app and will roll out as soon as we can :)

AndyAnds265 avatar Aug 14 '24 18:08 AndyAnds265

@AndyAnds265 I added a comment on the issue above.

Susexe avatar Aug 16 '24 08:08 Susexe