[Koha] How to correct misspellings etc. in Koha?

[Marc Véron]

Hi Michael

Since there is no list available of misspellings you found in German 
(de-DE), I will take time to 'automatically' create a new version for 
de-CH after your changes to the de-DE translation. Please let me know 
when you have finished your corrections.

If you see some odds due to sentence splitting or ambiguous words, 
please let the Koha community know by filing a Bug. That would be 
helpful not only for the German translations, but for all translations 
rsp. translators who spend a lot of their often voluntary time to adapt 
Koha to their languages.

Kind regards
Marc


Am 04.04.2017 um 19:31 schrieb Michael Kuhn:
> Hi Marc
>
>> Misspellings and other issues in translations can have several reasons.
>>
>> - Real misspellings in Pootle. They can be fixed directly on
>> translate.koha-community.org , e.g. for de-DE or de-CH
>
> Today I have made corrections for the tests of about 20 Koha system 
> preferences in the german translation. Since this is a quite tiresome 
> process I decided to continue later.
>
>> - Inconsistencies in vocabulary (like the one you mention with the
>> German translation of categories).
>>
>> - Wrong syntax because of sentence splitting by html tags in the
>> template files. I tried to fix a couple of them to make translation
>> smoother (Do a search after 'translatability' in Bug tracker) . I'm
>> quite sure there are more such sentence splittings and other template
>> issues to fix. They will have to go through the bug cycle (file a bug,
>> fix it, get a sign-off, QA...)
>>
>> - Ambiguous words (same word in English - several meanings in
>> translations). A related bug is: Bug 11285 - Vocabulary disambiguation
>
> I had already contact with Katrin Fischer about these subjects. It 
> doesn't seem like there could be a true solution to such inbred 
> translation problems - so I will just live with them and be happy to 
> at least correct some misspellings.
>
> To me it seems the problem is not the translation but the techniques 
> that are used to inject the various languages. Since these cannot be 
> changed in the near future it makes no sense to me to invest too much 
> time.
>
>> You write that you have collected quite a lot of misspellings. It would
>> be interesting to have a list of your findings. Can you file a bug with
>> your list? We can then figure out how to fix (Pootle, changes to
>> templates...), and use this bug as umbrella.
>
> I have just corrected them in the German translation (de-DE).
>
>> PS: As you probably know I'm helping with the German translation, and
>> back in 2012 I initiated the German translation with Swiss orthography
>> (mainly for school libraries). The work flow for the Swiss version
>> depends on the German version. If you have questions, feel free to get
>> in touch directly.
>
> So I hope the my corrections will kind of "automatically" find their 
> way into the Swiss German (de-CH) translation. Though, so far I'm not 
> using or promoting this translation.
>
> Best wishes: Michael