Re: Translation: Would regional translation fall back to primary language?

[Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2015 bytes --]

Hi Florian,


On Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 11:53, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:

> Hello Luis/sirgazil. Translation help sounds great.
> 

> That said, I believe that, because others will add to the translation,
> that it would be best if you Downloaded the Spain Spanish file from
> Weblate and then uploaded that PO file as the first translation in
> Colombian Spanish. Then change it from that base.

I think I'll go with that option, thanks.


> Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com writes:
> 

> > So, assuming an incomplete es-CO translation catalog already exists,
> > would the translation system (gettext?) retrieve missing translations
> > from the catalog corresponding to the primary language (es) or would
> > it retrieve the source string in English?
> 

> I just tested adding a dummy de_CH.po translation file to Guix and yes,
> it falls back to de translations if the msgstr in de_CH is empty, even
> without changing the LANGUAGE environment variable and only setting
> LC_ALL=de_CH.utf8.

Oh, thanks for trying that. That's great then.


> But still, from an organizational view, I suggest not doing a partial
> translation. I don’t know though.

I don't know if I understand correctly the organizational problem related to leaving the es-CO catalog partially translated, intentionally. Is it that Weblate would display the es-CO translation as incomplete and so translators would end up duplicating work? (Start translating the rest of the catalog not knowing that the "es-CO" regional catalog is supposed to be left incomplete so that the missing translations are taken from the almost complete "es" catalog?)

Because if that's the case, I'd like to propose Weblate developers that progress gauges for regional catalogs take into account the progress of the primary language. That way, the progress of a regional catalog would always be greater or equal to the progress of the catalog of the primary language.

[-- Attachment #1.2: publickey - luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com - 0x12DE1598.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-keys, Size: 1722 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 509 bytes --]