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Make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?
Make contacts in this aspect visible to each other?

Kontakte aus diesem Aspekt öffentlich machen?

Yes/No questions

Discussion started 04 January, 2016 11:52, with 5 comments.

akerbeltz Scottish Gaelic Translator with all proofreading rights 04 January, 2016 11:52

I'd like to make a general suggestion for future development, since Diaspora still seems to be at a relatively early stage.

In terms of l10n/l20n, it would be better if Yes/No questions were associated with individual Yes and No answer strings. In about half the worlds languages (including some big ones like Chinese, not just "weird ones" like Gaelic) there is no single word for Yes and No. These languages rely on echoing the verb i.e. in English you have
Are you sure? > Yes/No
but in those other languages you'd answer
Are you sure? > Am / Am not

This means that each answer depends on the verb in the question i.e. if the question was
Did you save? > Yes/No
Did you save? > Did / Did not

Having a single pair of Yes/No strings cover ALL these for the purpose of l10n creates big headaches and forces translators to come out with really twisted translations (often much longer than necessary) to allow answers via a single verb pair. For example, something like
Save? > Yes/No
which could be as short as?
Sàbhail > Sàbhail/Na sàbhail
in the current setup I have to make
A bheil thu airson sàbhaladh?
so the "generic" Tha/Chan eil answer can be user.
akerbeltz Scottish Gaelic Translator with all proofreading rights 04 January, 2016 11:54

*used

Somehow the title I picked got lost. Sorry. I called it "Yes/No questions"
Jonne Haß Manager 04 January, 2016 12:38

It would be great if you could raise this issue on Github, it will only get lost here tbh, since I don't have the time to make such a big change myself atm :)
akerbeltz Scottish Gaelic Translator with all proofreading rights 06 January, 2016 00:01

Happily. Where exactly on Github? I have a habit of picking the wrong thread...
Jonne Haß Manager 06 January, 2016 00:09

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/new ;)
akerbeltz Scottish Gaelic Translator with all proofreading rights 06 January, 2016 00:22

Filed, many thanks.

Discussion started 01 March, 2015 15:32, with no comments.

(A deleted user) 01 March, 2015 15:32

Wenn ich das richtig verstehe, werden sich die Kontakte aus dem Aspekt auf meiner Profilseite (oder Ähnlichem) gegenseitig angezeigt, jedoch nicht öffentlich.
Wie wäre es mit einer Formulierung in Richtung "Kontakte innerhalb des Aspekts offenlegen?"?

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