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How do I switch to English?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 2:39 am
by ivarwind
I believe the subject says it all, how do I switch Adium back to the original English UI texts?
Re: How do I switch to English?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 3:00 am
by zaudragon
ivarwind wrote:I believe the subject says it all, how do I switch Adium back to the original English UI texts?
Get Info on Adium, open the Languages menu, and deselect everything except for English.
You could always deselect everything over your International preffered langauge list.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 7:10 am
by evands
Why do you want to do this?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 5:40 pm
by Boramor
I will explain why.
A lot of people'd rather have an English system, because most of the internet is in English, so help sites and such are more understandable.
That way, you would also like your apps to be in English, so your menu bar won't change languages all the time.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 7:02 pm
by TheSilverFox06
So then why don't you just set your system to English?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:41 pm
by ivarwind
Thanks for the information, so easy when you know where
evands wrote:Why do you want to do this?
I want to do it because, sorry to say, the Danish translation is awful. I know the right thing to do would be to enter into a dialogue with the translator to correct what I find to be wrong, but right now I'd rather take the easy way out.
And continue to use Adium which is otherwise a great chat client.
In short, the problems range from bad grammar over bad spelling to "Danishification" of the English words to something that doesn't exist in Danish, even when there may be perfectly good Danish translations of the concepts. Or to something that does exist in Danish but means something else. I know translation is very difficult, and translation of short menu items and explanatory texts may be among the worst, giving the best of translators a hard time, so don't think I don't appreciate the effort. I do, but for now I prefer the original.
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 10:59 am
by Boramor
Yeah, I know the feeling, have the same feeling with the Dutch translation at times. There are words in English that just don't fit any Dutch word at all.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:00 pm
by scatterbraine
I also want to change from german to english, but i cant deactivate german, because its greyed out...
anybody knows what to do?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:51 pm
by The_Tick
Boramor wrote:Yeah, I know the feeling, have the same feeling with the Dutch translation at times. There are words in English that just don't fit any Dutch word at all.
Which words?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:57 pm
by evands
scatterbraine wrote:I also want to change from german to english, but i cant deactivate german, because its greyed out...
anybody knows what to do?
Because the German translation is bad? Or for another reason?
Re: How do I switch to English?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:53 pm
by memark
zaudragon wrote:Get Info on Adium, open the Languages menu, and deselect everything except for English.
scatterbraine wrote:I also want to change from german to english, but i
cant deactivate german, because its greyed out...
anybody knows what to do?
Unless I'm mistaken, this is a general fenomenon. Your main language (as set in System Prefs) is not deselectable in any (?) application. To disable it anyway you need to first change your system language or open the Adium package and rename/delete/move the lproj folder in question.
Re: How do I switch to English?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:34 am
by zaudragon
memark wrote:zaudragon wrote:Get Info on Adium, open the Languages menu, and deselect everything except for English.
scatterbraine wrote:I also want to change from german to english, but i
cant deactivate german, because its greyed out...
anybody knows what to do?
Unless I'm mistaken, this is a general fenomenon. Your main language (as set in System Prefs) is not deselectable in any (?) application. To disable it anyway you need to first change your system language or open the Adium package and rename/delete/move the lproj folder in question.
Well I was able to disable English on my English machine…
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:34 pm
by David Munch
Im doing the danish translation, and feel free to email/IM me any changes you'd like to see! I've tried to drag as many people into suggesting things, so that we could get the best translation available, but as you point out yourself, some things just cant be matched.
I havent done any changes from 0.81 to 0.82, so any new strings or last minute 'flaws' havent been made - Exams among other things - But I plan to do a major update as soon as the 0.83 strings have been finalized.
But otherwise, wouldnt deleting /Adium/Contents/Resources/Danish.lproj/ do the trick? Im not a cocoa master, so its just a suggestion you might want to try out..
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:38 pm
by The_Tick
What are the english words that are giving you guys issues?
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:02 am
by biglittledragoon
David Munch wrote:Im doing the danish translation, and feel free to email/IM me any changes you'd like to see! I've tried to drag as many people into suggesting things, so that we could get the best translation available, but as you point out yourself, some things just cant be matched.
I havent done any changes from 0.81 to 0.82, so any new strings or last minute 'flaws' havent been made - Exams among other things - But I plan to do a major update as soon as the 0.83 strings have been finalized.
But otherwise, wouldnt deleting /Adium/Contents/Resources/Danish.lproj/ do the trick? Im not a cocoa master, so its just a suggestion you might want to try out..
And it could be useful to remind everyone of the fact that everybody is unpaid.
That
Adium is an open source project. So, if you don't like something you have the right to change it!
On the french forum, we work as a team to improve the translation. I think it's a good way to do, don't you think?
CU,
BLD
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:03 am
by David Munch
The_Tick wrote:What are the english words that are giving you guys issues?
"Upload" for instance. We have no word at all to replace it in danish.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:20 pm
by The_Tick
David Munch wrote:The_Tick wrote:What are the english words that are giving you guys issues?
"Upload" for instance. We have no word at all to replace it in danish.
What I have been trying to do is get a full list of words you guys have problems with, and maybe change some of those. I've asked twice so far, but I'll ask again.
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:14 pm
by David Munch
The_Tick wrote:David Munch wrote:The_Tick wrote:What are the english words that are giving you guys issues?
"Upload" for instance. We have no word at all to replace it in danish.
What I have been trying to do is get a full list of words you guys have problems with, and maybe change some of those. I've asked twice so far, but I'll ask again.
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The identifier '%@' may possibly refer to any of the following users. Please select the correct user from the list below.
"Identifier", I know what it is but I have absolutely no idea on what to call it.. Ive translated it to 'Message'.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:28 am
by evands
That should be 'name' or 'username'. %@ is part of a complete user name; the dialog is requesting you to select the complete user name.