2012-01-02, 22:27
I have recently submitted updated Russian translation for the main GUI strings and default Confluence skin and am thinking about translating the current Aeon-Nox SVN build into Russian. But unfortunately in its current state Aeon-Nox SVN is not Russian-friendly.
- First, not all fonts include Russian characters, so with default fonts Aeon-Nox looks like a prop from a bad Hollywood movie about evil Russians. Switching to "Arial-based" fonts helps but these fonts do not look good on Aeon-Nox.
- Second, there is "the multiple plurals" problem that I have described here. So it would be good that all strings with numerals had "word:+numeral" structure like "Episodes: 4", "Movies: 10". And these words should be different from general descriptive words. E.g. in the string "TV shows: 20" the string "TV shows" should be different from the generic string "TV shows" used on the Home screen because they should have different grammar forms in Russian.
I hope something could be done about this so that the current SVN could be translated into Russian.
- First, not all fonts include Russian characters, so with default fonts Aeon-Nox looks like a prop from a bad Hollywood movie about evil Russians. Switching to "Arial-based" fonts helps but these fonts do not look good on Aeon-Nox.
- Second, there is "the multiple plurals" problem that I have described here. So it would be good that all strings with numerals had "word:+numeral" structure like "Episodes: 4", "Movies: 10". And these words should be different from general descriptive words. E.g. in the string "TV shows: 20" the string "TV shows" should be different from the generic string "TV shows" used on the Home screen because they should have different grammar forms in Russian.
I hope something could be done about this so that the current SVN could be translated into Russian.