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    • luckow
      luckow last edited by

      To give an idea: the whole translation is done while playing a 10 episode netflix series. After this process you need 3 times 2 hours to make the translation consistent and correct your own typos.

      If you want to translate in a team, start with guidelines.For German we have decided to translate according to these guidelines:

      • be inclusive & friendly
      • avoid to gender. try to find better terms
      • if gender is needed use the "*" format
      • only translate widly used tech terms. if there is no, don't translate
      • in the german language we make a difference between formal and informal salutation. Try to avoid direct salutation.
      • put often used terms in the glossary
      • as long as necessary but short in focus
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      • ei8fdb
        ei8fdb @nebulon last edited by

        @nebulon Glad it's useful.

        We will ship Cloudron 6 with only English and German as fully translated. This is only because those are the languages we at Cloudron speak

        Yup that makes sense.

        However once version 6 is out, it supports downloading new languages and translations without update

        Great, and the translations will be managed on weblate? I'd like to help with Spanish localisation.

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        • ei8fdb
          ei8fdb @luckow last edited by

          Thanks @luckow πŸ‘ these are good recommendations and advice about the process, particularly:

          • be inclusive & friendly
          • avoid to gender. try to find better terms. if gender is needed use the "*" format

          I am not familar with * format?

          • in the german language we make a difference between formal and informal salutation. Try to avoid direct salutation

          ☝ This does bring up a question: what tone does Cloudron.io want Cloudron to have? Serious? Scary? Helpful? Friendly? πŸ™‚

          • as long as necessary but short in focus

          ☝ this can be hard πŸ™‚

          Doing localisation so everybody can understand is a whole expertise in itself - I am not an expert, but I do try to contribute from the users perspective, and it's important to remember that not all Cloudron users are technology professionals! πŸ™‚

          It is also important to mention - in some languages there are no words for concepts like security/privacy/encryption - these are not cultural concepts. For the first first languages, this probably won't be a big issue.

          Here is a set of glossaries created by Localisation Lab, a great organisation who do localisation work for a lot of open source projects and "technical" projects with their community of native speakers.

          https://www.localizationlab.org/glossaries

          It has glossaries for many "technical" terms in many languages, for example in Spanish:

          attachment - adjunto
          database - base de datos
          decryption - descifrado
          default server - Servidor predeterminado

          Here are the glossaries for:
          Spanish, French, and Dutch.

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          • luckow
            luckow @ei8fdb last edited by nebulon

            @ei8fdb said in Translations for Cloudron:

            I am not familar with * format?

            I give a concrete example. It's possible to translate owner into the german word Besitzer. But in this case a masculine word is choosen. There is also a translation into Besitzerin possible. And Besitzerin is the female version of Besitzer. In our time and in discussions about an inclusive and gender-sensitive understanding, it is good to choose a "format" for how to deal with both versions of the "same" translation.

            • Besitzer/in
            • Besitzer & Besitzerinnen
            • sometimes Besitzer, sometimes Besitzerin
            • Besitzer*in

            In that case we chose Besitzerin as the "" format.

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            • ei8fdb
              ei8fdb @luckow last edited by ei8fdb

              @luckow Aha thanks. I studied German for 6 (7?) years in school (Entschuldigung, wie komme ich am bestem zum Bahnhof bitte?!) and university, but I think I missed that lesson. πŸ˜„

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              • V
                vjvanjungg last edited by

                just did the survey. where can we begin?

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                • ei8fdb
                  ei8fdb @nebulon last edited by

                  @vjvanjungg here's what @nebulon said about Translations for Cloudron:

                  We will ship Cloudron 6 with only English and German as fully translated. This is only because those are the languages we at Cloudron speak πŸ˜‰
                  However once version 6 is out, it supports downloading new languages and translations without update, so essentially once a Cloudron is then updated to version 6 then everyone can help out with translation for the rest πŸ™‚

                  Hope that helps.

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                    vjvanjungg @ei8fdb last edited by

                    @ei8fdb ha.. i missed that 😜thanksβ€”will wait then

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                    • ei8fdb
                      ei8fdb @ei8fdb last edited by

                      @ei8fdb said in Translations for Cloudron:

                      Results so far:

                      Responses to the question "What is the main language you speak?"

                      If you'd like to contribute your answer, you can fill out the 2 question survey.

                      20 responses as of today.

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                      • girish
                        girish Staff @ei8fdb last edited by girish

                        Who is the second tamilian in this forum πŸ™‚ ? (I am one of them, though I am not of any use with translations since I can only speak and sort of read and hardly write...).

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                        • ei8fdb
                          ei8fdb @ei8fdb last edited by

                          @ei8fdb said in Translations for Cloudron:

                          20 responses as of today.

                          22 responses as of today:
                          Language responses

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