Joachim, please write me directly with a list of all these things and any
similar ones you find.
I've been aware of the problem of having translatable strings for very
small words out of context which then reappear in different context. It's
only in this coming release that we have the technical means to
disambiguate as needed with different translations. I am pleased to see
these problems fixed now.
I even wrote a script to discover our duplicated translatable strings.
Attached is the output. Probably not every one of these is problematic.
But you might examine this list more closely and tell me which ones are.
I wouldn't have guessed, for instance, that "Interface" is a problem.
Thanks for telling me otherwise.
PRL
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:20 PM James Crook wrote:
> Thanks. That's a super example. The problem happens particularly for one
> word strings to translate.
>
> Paul is looking at adding contexts to solve exactly this problem.
>
> On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 20:14, Joachim Huffer
> wrote:
>
>> James, If you plan to work on translation infrastructure for the next
>> release, please consider separating "Interface" in two different items.
>>
>> #. i18n-hint: refers to Audacity's user interface settings
>> #: src/prefs/DevicePrefs.cpp src/prefs/GUIPrefs.cpp
>> src/prefs/MidiIOPrefs.cpp
>> msgid "Interface"
>> msgstr "Schnittstelle"
>>
>> The i18n-hint refers to only the first use case, which is the Audacity
>> GUI (which is correct for GUIPrefs.cpp). However, in MidiIOPrefs.cpp it is
>> not used in the user interface meaning, but interface to an audio adapter.
>> This makes it kind of hard to translate appropriately to the German
>> language (at least).
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>>
>> Am Do., 28. Mai 2020 um 21:00 Uhr schrieb James Crook <
>> james.k.cr...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Thanks. I've forwarded this to Paul who is very interested in improving
>>> our translation infrastructure.
>>> This is a case where a translation hint in the words to be translated
>>> would have helped.
>>> It is likely the same distinction is relevant in other languages too.
>>>
>>> We will be doing another round of translations before the end of June,
>>> so hopefully we will be able to get that sorted for the 2.4.2 release.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 19:51, Peter wrote:
>>>
I found a wrong translation in AUDACITY-MENÜ-EFFEKT-TONHÖHE ÄNDERN
There is an english "from ... * to*... Hz" which is translated as "von
... *bis* ... Hz":
[image: VonBis.png]
... but in this context it must be translated to...
"von ... * auf*... Hz"
or better:
"ändern von ... * auf*... Hz"
The given "von...bis" is a sometimes possible translation for
"from...to", but in this context it changes the sense of the sentence. This
german "from..bis" means something like "from... until...", but the meaning
should be more like a "from... towards...". In this cases Germans use
"von...auf..."
example:
*"I change the frequency from 440 to 450Hz"*
* "Ich ändere die Frequenz von 440 auf 450Hz"*
best regards
peter
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"Confirm"
lib-src/FileDialog/gtk/FileDialogPrivate.cpp
src/LangChoice.cpp
src/effects/VST/VSTEffect.cpp
"Error"
lib-src/FileDialog/gtk/FileDialogPrivate.cpp
src/AdornedRulerPanel.cpp
src/AudioIO.cpp
src/AutoRecoveryDialog.cpp
src/ProjectAudioManager.cpp
src/ProjectFileIO.cpp
src/ProjectFileManager.cpp
src/TimerRecordDialog.cpp
src/effects/Contrast.cpp
src/effects/Effect.cpp
src/effects/Generator.cpp
src/effects/nyquist/Nyquist.cpp
src/export/ExportFFmpeg.cpp
src/export/ExportMP2.cpp
src/menus/TrackMenus.cpp
src/menus/TransportMenus.cpp
src/prefs/DirectoriesPrefs.cpp
src/prefs/KeyConfigPrefs.cpp
src/tracks/playabletrack/wavetrack/ui/WaveTrackControls.cpp
plug-ins/eq-xml-to-txt-converter.ny
"Output"
lib-src/mod-nyq-bench/NyqBench.cpp
src/Benchmark.cpp
src/effects/BassTreble.cpp
"Load Nyquist script"
lib-src/mod-nyq-bench/NyqBench.cpp
src/effects/nyquist/Nyquist.cpp
"Warning"
lib-src/mod-nyq-bench/NyqBench.cpp
src/AudacityLogger.cpp
src/export/Export.cpp
src/export/ExportCL.cpp
src/export/ExportMultiple.cpp
src/import/ImportPCM.cpp
src/widgets/Warning.cpp
"Save Nyquist script"
lib-src/mod-nyq-bench/NyqBench.cpp
src/effects/nyquist/Nyquist.cpp
"New"
