German Translations are not German!

[nicklockwood]

German Translations are not German!

[angerman]

Is there a list of persons, who contributed which translation? Or mark which translations are Google Translated or so? I'm afraid one has to verify each translation. For now using the iRate.bundle is going to be very embarrassing. The english text is fine. But after I saw the German text, I just removed the bundle as a whole.

Also there's a problem when the text is too long. The alert view looks very off then.

[nicklockwood]

The English, Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish and (now) German have been checked or contributed by humans. Not sure about the others.

[nicklockwood]

When you say the alert looks "off" if the text is too long, can you clarify? For example, are you referring to the German text? And do you mean in portrait or landscape? Which OS version did you test on? Can you provide a link to a screenshot of the problem?

[angerman]

I'd really like a list of (initial translators) and possibly a list of verificators or contributors. That would really improve the trustworthiness. I like the German translation of Appirator actually a little better then the provided one. It just reads better/friendlier/more call to action like.

Moritz Angermann

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

The English, Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish and (now) German have been checked or contributed by humans. Not sure about the others.

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[angerman]

The text is too long for the AlertView. there is some shadow of an embossed element behind the text (could that be a Scrollview?). The text runs from very close below the title straight down to very close over the buttons. That is in Portrait mode. Latest iOS: 5.1

Moritz Angermann

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

When you say the alert looks "off" if the text is too long, can you clarify? For example, are you referring to the German text? And do you mean in portrait or landscape? Which OS version did you test on? Can you provide a link to a screenshot of the problem?

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[nicklockwood]

French, Italian and Spanish have all been verified by native speakers. Chinese and Turkish were donated by github users, so I don't know if they are accurate but I'm assuming they are. The rest are machine translations.

I don't have the list of names to hand although you can deduce them by studying the pull history for the project if you wish. I fail to see what difference the names would make. I'm not pretending they are human-translated when they are machine translations - why would I?

If you are unhappy with that, you are free to source your own replacement translations from a professional translation service (I recommend icanlocalize.com), or use the ones from Appirater instead. If you would like to contribute better translations back to the project then they would be gratefully received.

I am however curious about the layout issue you reported. If you can give me reproduction steps, I will fix it.

[nicklockwood]

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Here's a screenshot from iOS 5.1:

http://charcoaldesign.co.uk/images/screenshots.irate.2.png

Can you send me a shot of what you are seeing?

[angerman]

Don't get me wrong on this one. I just think it would be helpful to have a file detailing the localization.

For the layout issue, see https://skitch.com/angerman/8w2mr/ios-simulator
(still old translations)

Moritz Angermann

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

French, Italian and Spanish have all been verified by native speakers. Chinese and Turkish were donated by github users, so I don't know if they are accurate but I'm assuming they are. The rest are machine translations.

I don't have the list of names to hand although you can deduce them by studying the pull history for the project if you wish. I fail to see what difference the names would make. I'm not pretending they are human-translated when they are machine translations - why would I?

If you are unhappy with that, you are free to source your own replacement translations from a professional translation service (I recommend icanlocalize.com (http://icanlocalize.com)), or use the ones from Appirater instead. If you would like to contribute better translations back to the project then they would be gratefully received.

I am however curious about the layout issue you reported. If you can give me reproduction steps, I will fix it.

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[angerman]

That's with the new translations; you also don't have that strange emboss in the AlertView, I got.

Moritz Angermann

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Here's a screenshot from iOS 5.1:

http://charcoaldesign.co.uk/images/screenshots.irate.2.png

Can you send me a shot of what you are seeing?

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[nicklockwood]

Update to the latest iRate version and see if you're still seeing the issue. Was your screenshot taken on the simulator or the device?

[angerman]

That was code as of earlier for today. Screenshot from Simulator; looked the same on the device.

The latest commit only contains the new language files. They hide be bug, because they shorten the text to an acceptable length. If you though have a longer App Title (as forged in the attached screenshot), you get the same layout issue. (This is with the update from the latest source. c.f. the new translation text)

https://skitch.com/angerman/8w29u/ios-simulator

Moritz Angermann

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

Update to the latest code base and see if you're still seeing the issue. Was your screenshot taken on the simulator or the device?

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[nicklockwood]

I believe I fixed it. Unfortunately I had to use some "magic numbers" for the layout because I couldn't identify the logic that iOS uses to position the labels, so you may find it doesn't work for every possible text combination.

[nicklockwood]

I just got the German text professionally retranslated. The text they've produced is:

Wenn Sie %@ mögen, würden Sie es bitte bewerten? Dies wird nicht länger als eine Minute dauern. Danke für Ihre Unterstützung!

Do you have any opinion about this? How does it compare to the text you provided? It seems shorter, so I'll probably use it unless you say it's bad.

[honkmaster]

I have to say the german localization i very bad! Can i help to provide a better experience?

[nicklockwood]

Please do.