• From: Germany
  • Registered: 2005-06-12
  • Posts: 7

Topic: German translation

Since I will most likely start a PunBB-based forum soon, I looked over the German translation by Eric ("eha") who had based his work on that of Johannes ("schnetm") and found some typos and such which I corrected, mainly unsolved Umlaut-entities. I did also some (minor) rework on style, just differences in taste, I suppose.
I will gladly upload the translated files here. Since Eric called his German_V2, mine will be German_V2.1.

Some questions before that:

- Eric's original .zip contained some directories under /_MACOSX which were empty. Is it necessary to include them?
- Am I right in assuming that the search function does not work for umlauts (because I want to give that info in the translated text)?
- Rickard, will it likely be necessary to add translation for PunBB 1.3 when it comes out?

Regards,

Bernhard

2 Reply by coaster (edited by coaster 2005-06-13 11:51)

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2005-03-09
  • Posts: 17

Re: German translation

You actually don't need to use umlaut entities if both the charset sent to the browser and the language files have the same encoding, i.e. ISO-8859-1. UTF-8 would solve all charset problems anyway. roll

By the way, I was also planning to release my (unfinished) rewritten German translation, for both formal ("Sie") and informal ("du") German, since the one on PunBB.org has some typos/spelling mistakes and is only in formal German. Maybe I will wait for PunBB 1.3, but it depends on how much I'm willing to finish it. tongue

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2005-06-12
  • Posts: 7

Re: German translation

Hello Coaster,

you are so very right about UTF-8, but how can we be sure what the browser encodings are? I am sitting at my (Ubuntu-) Linux box right now, and thus I am on UTF-8.
I suggest that, after receiving answers to my other questions, I upload my files. They are only in formal language, like Eric's. I am very willing to leave you the first place to work on 1.3 ;-), but if you decide you don't want to continue on it, you are welcome to send me the files, and I will try to finish them.

Regards, Bernhard

P.S.: Wo steckst du denn in DE? Gladbeck/Ruhrgebiet hier.

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2005-03-09
  • Posts: 17

Re: German translation

I think it's quite unusual that a German forum will be running a different charset than ISO-8859-1 but I might be wrong. People that don't probably know how to convert the language files anyway. smile

I'm working on the informal German version right now, so I might release it soon. If you do the formal version, we'd be perfectly complementing each other. smile

P.S. Weiter unten, bei Stuttgart smile

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2005-06-12
  • Posts: 7

Re: German translation

OK, I will send mine to Rickard soon.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
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Re: German translation

coaster wrote:

UTF-8 would solve all charset problems anyway. roll

No need to roll your eyes. It's coming. Sooner or later smile

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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7 Reply by Chaosmaker (edited by Chaosmaker 2005-08-22 00:32)

  • From: Munich, Germany
  • Registered: 2005-08-22
  • Posts: 14

Re: German translation

I've translated the admin interface of PunBB 1.2.6 into German. It's possibly not the best translation (just quick and dirty), but it should be understandable.
You may download it here.

P.S.: It's an informal version, but it's just for admins so i think it's ok. wink