Re: Challenges in translating GNOME recipes

[Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl>]

Hello Matthias,
I have added Dutch (nl) to po/LINGUAS and downloaded the po file. I will 
have a look at it.
Hannie
Gnome Dutch Translators

Op 08-12-16 om 16:07 schreef Matthias Clasen:
> Hi,
>
> I want to bring this new app to your attention: it is is called GNOME
> recipes, and lives here: https://git.gnome.org//browse/recipes.I did a
> proof-of-concept German translation, just to make sure that the basic
> translation infrastructure works.
>
> There are a few challenges for translation here, that I want to discuss.
>
> - The application uses a fair amount of domain-specific language: it
> talks about cuisines, meals, diets, integredients, and cooking units
> of measure... but you can probably deal with that.
>
> - While recipes that users enter themselves are clearly user data and
> will only be available in the language that the user entered them in,
> we also plan to ship a decent set of pre-installed recipes, so that
> the app is useful out of the box and doesn't come up empty. Those
> recipes are arguably application data, and should ideally be
> translated.
>
> - The app also has an ingredient list and allows to search by
> ingredients, as well as by other criteria. In those places,
> ingredients should clearly be translated, and we need to be able to
> map from the translated ingredient names to the language in which they
> appear in the recipes (which may be different from recipe to recipe,
> depending on whether the recipe is from the preinstalled set, or
> entered by the user...)
>
> - When scaling ingredients (e.g double a recipe), we need to be able
> to change translated ingredients and units from singular to plural
> forms. My current approach is to provide separate translations for
> singular and plural, but I guess this way of doing this will never be
> entirely ngettext-ly correct.
>
> - As a little extra complication, the ingredients list is
> alphabetically sorted, with a sidebar for jumping to sections by
> letter. I've made the alphabet that is used for the sidebar
> translatable, so you can add umlauts and whatever other characters
> might be relevant for your language.
>
> Alexandre Franke suggested to keep translations for ingredients in a
> separate domain. Do you think that would be helpful ?
>
> I'd be happy to hear your thoughts and experience while trying to
> translate this app!
>
> Matthias
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