2015-12-14, 04:06
Hello,
Since we have reached Beta 4 of Kodi 16 and most of the new strings have been uploaded to Transifex, I think it's time to make the developers aware of a problem that we, the translators, have
The problem is that most of the english strings become longer whey they are translated
For my language (Romanian), the strings seem to be 30% longer on average, I don't have any stats for others, but it looks like it's the same
Please see the folowing images:
Location: Select a movie and press "i" key (Movie information -> "Set myrating" string
Affected languages: Romanian, Italian, French, German
Location: Main menu buttons
My language is the most affected
To translate the string correctly and in an understandable manner I need something like
MOVIES = ARTISTIC MOVIES
TV SHOWS = SERIAL MOVIES
This is just an example, we have are reverse order of words
The image above is just the locally edited confluence strings.po file for testing
I actually managed to translate them into single words to fit, I was just wondering if the more correct 2 words translation would fit, it doesn't
Other affected languages: Italian and German (on Play disc)
Location: SYSTEM - > Add-ons -> open left side panel
Affected languages: Romanian, Italian, French, German
On our part the translators, we can only try to use some other shorter words with the same meaning, this is hard and limited, this is what we are already doing it, and we compromise the quality using shorter, not so widely used and understood words
I hope on your part you can do more
Right now Strings in Confluence look best only for english
The ideal solution, I think, would be to put all the buttons in a vertical list with a long enough width, maybe like it was the home menu a long time ago, this would solve the "Movie information" buttons and home screen buttons problem
Since this is not practical, maybe you can do this for now:
1. remove a little bit of the side padding on the buttons in the first image
2. Make the menu longer so that the string fit no matter how long they are, more horizontal scroll
3. add a little bit more width on the add-ons side panel
If you are aware and think that this is not a issue since you have a nice automatic scrolling of text on mouse hover then feel free to close or delete this thread
I just wanted to make sure that you know about this issue that bothers me
Thanks
Since we have reached Beta 4 of Kodi 16 and most of the new strings have been uploaded to Transifex, I think it's time to make the developers aware of a problem that we, the translators, have
The problem is that most of the english strings become longer whey they are translated
For my language (Romanian), the strings seem to be 30% longer on average, I don't have any stats for others, but it looks like it's the same
Please see the folowing images:
Location: Select a movie and press "i" key (Movie information -> "Set myrating" string
Affected languages: Romanian, Italian, French, German
Location: Main menu buttons
My language is the most affected
To translate the string correctly and in an understandable manner I need something like
MOVIES = ARTISTIC MOVIES
TV SHOWS = SERIAL MOVIES
This is just an example, we have are reverse order of words
The image above is just the locally edited confluence strings.po file for testing
I actually managed to translate them into single words to fit, I was just wondering if the more correct 2 words translation would fit, it doesn't
Other affected languages: Italian and German (on Play disc)
Location: SYSTEM - > Add-ons -> open left side panel
Affected languages: Romanian, Italian, French, German
On our part the translators, we can only try to use some other shorter words with the same meaning, this is hard and limited, this is what we are already doing it, and we compromise the quality using shorter, not so widely used and understood words
I hope on your part you can do more
Right now Strings in Confluence look best only for english
The ideal solution, I think, would be to put all the buttons in a vertical list with a long enough width, maybe like it was the home menu a long time ago, this would solve the "Movie information" buttons and home screen buttons problem
Since this is not practical, maybe you can do this for now:
1. remove a little bit of the side padding on the buttons in the first image
2. Make the menu longer so that the string fit no matter how long they are, more horizontal scroll
3. add a little bit more width on the add-ons side panel
If you are aware and think that this is not a issue since you have a nice automatic scrolling of text on mouse hover then feel free to close or delete this thread
I just wanted to make sure that you know about this issue that bothers me
Thanks
