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Synchronize localization.

Open winder opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

  • Push keys to POEditor
  • Download latest updates from POEditor
  • Add Serbian and zh-Hans to AvailableLanguages.java
    • Question: we have localizations for zh-CN and zh-Hans, POEditor calls them Chinese and Simplified Chinese but the Oracle International Language Environment Guide does not have zh-Hans. Can anyone recommend the correct name for these two localizations?
  • Rename mappings and resource files to match recent locale fixes.

winder avatar Jul 19 '23 13:07 winder

Hi Will,

I took the liberty to register the project to Crowdin and we got a free open source license: https://translate.universalgcodesender.com/

Crowdin has a direct Github integration and creates pull requests when someone edits translations. It also has other nice features such as support for uploading screenshots to add context for a translation string. Overall I felt that Crowdin has more features that simplifies the translation.

I looked through the translations for zh-CN and zh-Hans and the translations looked very similar on many places. And according to the Java documentation and Crowdin the zh-CN is Chinese simplified. It is possible that I've messed this up, so if someone has more insights I'd be happy to correct!

If you rather use POEditor I can revert my changes. But the way it needs to be renewed I felt that I would like to move on. =)

breiler avatar Jul 19 '23 13:07 breiler

Neat! The screenshot feature sounds really useful and proper GitHub integration would be great. We also have an open source license for POEditor. When I was evaluating the tools originally the GH integrations were all pretty bad, POEditor edged out the rest with a decent API.

I don't have a strong opinion about switching to another service, but I'll offer some things to consider:

  • POEditor has 151 contributors.
  • The docs are setup to send people to POEditor.
  • The POEditor project was marked "archived" because I hadn't logged into it for so long, I re-enabled it last week.
  • The POEditor terms are always out of date because I manually run the update_languages.py script.
  • It looks like POEditor has improved the GH integration. It still looks pretty basic, I can't vouch for it.

I just added you as an admin to POEditor if you want to click around the site

winder avatar Jul 19 '23 14:07 winder

Looks like only 6 languages / 8 contributors have used POEditor in the last year. So the 151 contributor number is very inflated.

winder avatar Jul 19 '23 14:07 winder

I was not allowed to see or change the Github integration settings. We can keep the poeditor as it has a bit cleaner and more user friendly interface. I'll revert my changes for crowdin once this is merged

breiler avatar Jul 22 '23 06:07 breiler