Errors in German translation

[Patrick Storz]

I noticed some errors in German translation of Inkscape 0.91.
I'll post them here and will add others as I find them (I hope that's OK, of course others are welcome to add their findings, too)

Other related reports:
Bug #1419133: German translation: error in import bitmap dialog

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

One major issue:
The whole message window that appears when one has not saved a document in SVG format yet but some other format, e.g. PDF, is untranslated. Therefore the window is empty.

English strings:
"The file ... was saved with a format that may cause data loss!"
"Do you want to save this file as Inkscape SVG?"

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

A small typo in option to snap to text anchors and base lines:
"An TExtankern und Grundlinien einrasten" (notice capital E)

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

"Focus" is wrongly written with "c" instead of "k":

#: ../src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:699
msgid "_Opacity when focused:"
msgstr "Deckkraft bei Focus:"

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Same spot as comment #3:
"Opacity" should consistently read "Deckkraft" in German ("Trübung" is wrong and totally incomprehensible)

Therefore I propose:

#: ../src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:699
msgid "_Opacity when focused:"
msgstr "Deckkraft wenn fokussiert:"

#: ../src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:701
msgid "Opacity when _unfocused:"
msgstr "Deckkraft wenn nicht fokussiert:"

(One might think about "defokussiert" in the second case but I assume the above is clearer)

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

A little imperfection:

#: ../src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:643
msgid "Show close button on dialogs"
msgstr "Schließknöpfe in Dialogen zeigen"

It should probably read "Knöpfe zum Schließen von Dialogen zeigen"
("Schließknöpfe" is not a German word)

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

In relation to comment #5:

The correct German translation for "button" is "Schaltfläche" ("Knopf" is colloquial).

Therefore I recommend to replace all occurrences of "Knopf"/"Knöpfe" with "Schaltfläche"/"Schaltflächen"

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Typo (and small improvement):

#: ../src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp:665
msgid "Saving dialogs status"
msgstr "Speichere Dialogstatud"

It should read "Dialogstatus speichern"

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Voronoi fill pattern extension help dialog:

Voronoi Muster -> Voronoi-Muster

... Das Muster wird später im Fülungs- und Kontur-Dialog verfügbar seion ... -> Das Muster wird später im Füllungs- und Kontur-Dialog verfügbar sein

The second paragraph of that dialog, as well as the help text for the other Voronoi extension, need to be reworked (by someone who tested and understood the functionality), as they are both difficult to understand in German.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

The word 'Group' in the status bar (as in 'group of 20 objects in layer xy') is currently translated as 'Gruppieren', but should be 'Gruppe'.

[Heiko Woehrle (mail-heikowoehrle)]

Hi everybody,

thanks for your remarks regarding the German translation. I will work on them in two weeks when I'm back in business.

Best regards,

Heiko

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
Von: Hachmann <email address hidden>
Datum: 07.02.2015 2:28 (GMT+01:00)
An: <email address hidden>
Betreff: [Bug 1416672] Re: Errors in German translation

The word 'Group' in the status bar (as in 'group of 20 objects in layer
xy') is currently translated as 'Gruppieren', but should be 'Gruppe'.

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  I noticed some errors in German translation of Inkscape 0.91.
  I'll post them here and will add others as I find them (I hope that's OK, of course others are welcome to add their findings, too)

  Other related reports:
  Bug #1419133: German translation: error in import bitmap dialog

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[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

One more:
/share/extensions/interp_att_g.inx.h:13 and 14 :
Translate X -> Verschiebung X / Translate Y -> Verschiebung Y (instead of 'Übersetzer X / Y' ;) )

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

And another set, all concerning the tweak tool:

Tweak tool help text in the status line (with German correction suggestions):

- 'Ziehen oder Klicken zum verschieben hinein; mit Umschalttaste zum verschieben hinaus' (braucht passenderen Text, z.B. zieht Objekte an/stößt Objekte ab)
- '...zum zufälligen verschieben' (Großschreibung)
- 'zum kleiner skalieren', 'zum größer skalieren' (Verkleinern / Vergrößern)
- 'zum Drehen im Uhrzeigersinn; mit Umschalttaste zum gegen den Uhrzeigersinn' (hier fehlt das Drehen in der zweiten Hälfte)
- 'Ziehen oder Klicken, um die Weichheit zu erhöhen' (gemeint ist hier die Unschärfe)

In the history records for all these actions, there is an ominous 'Justage' - I'd think that was French, and not German... maybe 'Änderung' would fit better?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Trace Bitmap dialog:

"Helligkeit ausschalten" should be something different ('switch off brightness' ...)
I don't remember the old translation here, but I think it was correct.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Filter -> Raster -> Layer / Layer with channel (?):

Schwarzer Punkt -> Schwarzpunkt
Weißer Punkt -> Weißpunkt

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Several filters:
Invertiet -> Invertiert

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

@Heiko (and Ben):
Are you guys planning to fix these? Otherwise I can easily update the PO file myself and request the merge.

I just thought you'd like to be kept in the loop but if you don't have the time just say so and I'd be happy to help out so we can get translation fixes into the code swiftly.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

One more for this collection: 3D Mutter der Perlen -> 3D-Perlmutt oder Perlmutt 3D

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

All of the above will be fixed with bug #1443126.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Translation update in the 0.91.x branch, rev. 13768.
Thanks!