French translation

[davidperrenoud]

I have overhauled the French translation. I have not verified exactly but it should now be 100% complete.

It seems that quite a lot of percent characters were missing, such as %f, %n, etc. There were a couple of translations that were completely wrong probably due to copy-paste

What is difficult in French, is that an unbreakable space is needed before certain characters such as ":", "?", "!", etc. You will see that a lot of strings end with an unbreakable space in the French translation contrary to the English string. This is because the ":" character seems to be added later in the C++ code. It would be nice if DCP-o-matic the ":" character in the translatable string instead.

It is not always clear if English words such as "Read" are past participles such as in "this e-mail has been read" or infinitive verbs such as in "please read this e-mail". It would be nice to have a comment in the translation to differentiate these two cases.

For dcp_content_type.cc, it would be nice to mention https://registry-page.isdcf.com/contenttypes/ to better understand the types. Most translations do not seem to bother translating them and the Polish translation falls back to showing FTR, TLR, TSR, etc.

[cth103]

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you!

Maybe I should merge this and then we can think about your questions? Or would you prefer to clarify things before merging?

[davidperrenoud]

We can merge it. :)

[cth103]

I squashed the two commits and merged, thank you!

[cth103]

What is difficult in French, is that an unbreakable space is needed before certain characters such as ":", "?", "!", etc. You will see that a lot of strings end with an unbreakable space in the French translation contrary to the English string. This is because the ":" character seems to be added later in the C++ code. It would be nice if DCP-o-matic the ":" character in the translatable string instead.

This is a little tricky, as the presence of the : in some cases is platform dependent (for labels it's added on macOS, where this seems to be the standard, but not on Windows or Linux).

I guess we could do this the other way around: the translatable strings have a : and we remove it for labels on Linux/Windows. That would require a bit of effort to update existing translations.

It is not always clear if English words such as "Read" are past participles such as in "this e-mail has been read" or infinitive verbs such as in "please read this e-mail". It would be nice to have a comment in the translation to differentiate these two cases.

Do you have any note of confusing phrases that you found? It's no problem to add clarifying comments.

For dcp_content_type.cc, it would be nice to mention https://registry-page.isdcf.com/contenttypes/ to better understand the types. Most translations do not seem to bother translating them and the Polish translation falls back to showing FTR, TLR, TSR, etc.

Nice idea, I added a link in 3476d67