torsdag 22 juli 2021 kl. 16:19:20 UTC+2 skrev Daniel Sahlberg:

torsdag 22 juli 2021 kl. 13:34:37 UTC+2 skrev Stefan:

I was going through the translations.
While the translations for the UI are mostly ok, the ones for the docs are 
not:

   - most are incomplete (only 3 are fully translated)
   - many also translate command line arguments or other strings that must 
   not be translated
   - some use invalid escaping, leading to severe layout issues
   - some don't update changed strings correctly, leaving old (and 
   therefore wrong) texts in the translation
   - also it happens regularly that I have to fix translated strings 
   because of mismatched open-and-closing tags (in that case the build fails)

So, considering all the problems I was wondering whether we really need the 
docs to be translated? The UI translation would of course stay. But If 
there are no objections, I would remove the translated docs with the next 
release and only leave the docs in English.


I've been meaning to take a look at the translation to Swedish (and I have 
done some bits and pieces) but I must admit that it is quite low on my list 
of priorities, definately behind working on the code. While in principle I 
think it is nice to have localized manuals, considering your points 
(especially 1 and 4), I think it is a correct decision to remove the 
translated docs.

On a sidenote: has anyone of you even used the translated docs? Or do you 
use the English ones?


I would use the English, especially since it is easier to ask questions 
*here* using the correct terminology instead of trying to guess the correct 
term for #insert localized term#.


Coming back to an old thread: The tools used to produce the translated 
manuals require Python2 and a binary library that is no longer available, 
without these it is impossible to build TortoiseSVN. This makes it 
difficult to add new contributors. Considering there has not been any 
replies to this thread, I've made a suggestion on the Tortoise-Dev group to 
remove the translated User manuals (see [1]).

This will not affect the language packs for the user interface.

If anyone would like to keep the translated documentation, speak up and 
please be prepared to help out migrating the scripts to Python3.

Kind regards,
Daniel Sahlberg

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/tortoisesvn-dev/c/6V0DMV_0RGI


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