Help with application translations?

Posted by: wfaulk

Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 16:07

If anyone who speaks a language other than English would like to take a few minutes to translate my Android application's text, I'd certainly appreciate it. I'd be happy to include virtually any language.

On "translated.by"
English values

Note that the five longish descriptions are prepended with color names inside the app: "Red indicates" instead of just "indicates". So if you could construct your grammar so that the color name being the first word makes sense, that would also be appreciated. If it's not possible, or very awkward, let me know and I can fix the problem in my code.

Also please include translations of these five color names: Yellow, Green, Blue, Red, Cyan.

Also, I'm sure there might be contextual questions. Ask away.
Posted by: peter

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 16:19

"Off of"? If you aren't going to remove the "of" in en_US, at least remove it in en_GB smile

Peter
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 17:01

Done.

Perhaps surprisingly to you, leaving out the "of" in en_US sounds really awkward.
Posted by: tman

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 17:11

The copyright symbol is inline but you've got < and > around the link? Are they all displayed in the same way? Just curious. No idea if this is a problem or not.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 17:29

I have to format the link that way to turn it into a clickable link.
Posted by: tman

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 17:47

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
I have to format the link that way to turn it into a clickable link.

Yeah but I was wondering if you needed to do the same for the copyright symbol but as this is UTF-8 I guess not.
Posted by: Dignan

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 17:49

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Done.

Perhaps surprisingly to you, leaving out the "of" in en_US sounds really awkward.

Agreed.

Sorry, Bitt. I took Japanese for five years but I can't even remember half of the two simple alphabets now smile
Posted by: RobotCaleb

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 19:47

Why don't you put up a shared Google spreadsheet that people can add languages to in new columns?
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 22:01

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Done.

Perhaps surprisingly to you, leaving out the "of" in en_US sounds really awkward.

I'd reword it as "finding applications that can be moved from internal storage to external storage," instead.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Help with application translations? - 05/08/2010 23:44

Originally Posted By: RobotCaleb
Why don't you put up a shared Google spreadsheet that people can add languages to in new columns?

That's kind of awkward.

Let's see how this works.

Actually, that one seems to have some notable problems. How about this one?
Posted by: gbeer

Re: Help with application translations? - 06/08/2010 00:05

Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Done.

Perhaps surprisingly to you, leaving out the "of" in en_US sounds really awkward.

I'd reword it as "finding applications that can be moved from internal storage to external storage," instead.


Beat me to it. sleep
Posted by: RobotCaleb

Re: Help with application translations? - 06/08/2010 02:19

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Actually, that one seems to have some notable problems. How about this one?


That's pretty cool.