Locale Issues Megathread

[PrestonN]

Hey everyone,

I'll be the first to admit that the way that locales are setup isn't perfect. There are a few inconsistencies between languages that need to be fixed. Some smaller, some larger.

I'd like to compile a list of all of the problems that are out there. Fixing these issues will likely end up being done all at once in their own development cycle. I'd like this thread to be the location for all issues related to localization changed.

Note: If the issue is about a certain wording of a translation, it may be best to have that discussion over in Weblate as I won't be too helpful with that. This thread is more for stylizing and formatting issues.

What I need from translators / native speakers is the following.

1. The language that needs changes
2. The formatting / stylized change that needs to be made
3. How it's currently formatted
4. How it needs to change
5. Anything else you feel may be helpful

Once the problem has been fixed, I will hide your post to make you aware that it's resolved.

Thanks for the help!

[milotype]

Alignment and typography corrections #653 (comment)
The issue about a separator charater between "value" and "extension" remained unsolved.

[Elaborendum]

• Selecting System Default when the computer is using any Latin American Spanish (excluding, I assume, Mexican Spanish) results in the Locale not being found and the app defaulting to English. I assume this happens for other locales that are specified to a region (like maybe Belgian French?). This happened on Windows 10.
• I don't really agree with the idea of having multiple Spanish translations in projects that aren't very big, as I've seen that a lot of the time one ends up being very under worked because translators probably feel like it's tedious to do most of the same work twice. But since this project has both UK and US English, I'll assume this shall follow suit in this case.
  • Anyway, onto the actual issue. I don't really think it's necessary to have a third Spanish translation (the Argentinian Spanish one), as the Mexican Spanish translation could cover Latin American Spanish in general, plus, it's already under worked in comparison with the other two.

Is this the right place, or should I file a separate issue for each one?

[GilgusMaximus]

Well, we are using Weblate. If the language is not translated over there, then it will not be found.

We want to keep the diversity, as we are no language experts who can tell which language differences matter and which not. E.g. Norwegian Bokmal and Nynorsk or chinese. So there are three possible solutions here:

Either changing system locale to a supported language, choosing an available language, or someone could go ahead, copy the language file, rename it according to standard to their language accent and make a PR.

Or translate on weblate alternatively.

[ghost]

The Russian translation is not displayed in the places on the attached screenshots (the player has all the buttons without translation).

[ghost]