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#1 2005-03-03 22:09:59

Skubidu

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Registered: 2004-10-23

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My wishlist for textpattern localisation

“I have a dream” ;)

I would be even more happy with textpattern, if the following phrases could be added to the language files:

• content > write > Advanced Options > custom1
• content > write > Advanced Options > custom2
• presentation > pages > default
• presentation > style > default
• presentation > forms > article, comment, link, misc
• admin > plugins > help
• admin > plugins > active

And I’m not sure why this happens: If I translate article and excerpt into German (Artikel/Exzerpt) the words are changed to lowercase. Why ever…

• content > write > Advanced Options > article, excerpt

There are two general problems:

1. The buttons (publish, save) are to small because the width is fixed.
2. If I translate “2 hours ago” into German, the result is “2 Stunden vor” – it should be “vor 2 Stunden”

Well: “I have a dream” :)

Last edited by Skubidu (2005-03-04 08:26:07)

#2 2005-03-03 23:13:10

mamash

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Registered: 2004-02-21

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Re: My wishlist for textpattern localisation

Well, it would be difficult to just ‘localize’ some of the things you’re asking for, because with the exception of ‘help’ and ‘active’, everything is not hardcoded strings, but default values in database (or files as with the custom1/custom2 example fields – see lib/admin_config.php). So you’d need a default German installation package, not just a language file.

The rest of your post – yes, seems like you’re hitting the constraints of German, i.e. upper case word initials, longish German words etc. Valid points though.

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#3 2005-03-04 07:08:42

Jeremie

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Registered: 2004-08-11

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Re: My wishlist for textpattern localisation

Mine is to be able to localize Textile help :-)

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#4 2005-03-04 08:21:05

Skubidu

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Registered: 2004-10-23

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Re: My wishlist for textpattern localisation

> mamash wrote:

> So you’d need a default German installation package, not just a language file.

We did this for RC2 – but my “dream” is not to do this ;)

If forgot something:
It would be a nice feature for German pages, if there was an option in the preferences to change umlaut-replacement from ä > a to ä > ae. It’s common practice in German to replace the umlauts ä, ö, ü, etc. by ae, oe, ue.

#5 2005-03-06 09:17:12

Skubidu

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Registered: 2004-10-23

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Re: My wishlist for textpattern localisation

Update:

• localised setup
• adding phrases link “my pithy slogan” (used by setup, written in database) etc. to the lang-files