How do I switch to English?

ivarwind · Post by **ivarwind** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:39 am

I believe the subject says it all, how do I switch Adium back to the original English UI texts?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:00 am

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.

Post by **evands** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:10 am

Why do you want to do this?

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Wed May 18, 2005 5:40 pm

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.

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:02 pm

So then why don't you just set your system to English?

ivarwind · Post by **ivarwind** » Wed May 18, 2005 11:41 pm

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.

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Thu May 19, 2005 10:59 am

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.

scatterbraine · Post by **scatterbraine** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:00 pm

I also want to change from german to english, but i cant deactivate german, because its greyed out...

anybody knows what to do?

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:51 pm

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?

Post by **evands** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:57 pm

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?

memark · Post by **memark** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:53 pm

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.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:34 am

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…

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:34 pm

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..

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:38 pm

What are the english words that are giving you guys issues?

biglittledragoon · Post by **biglittledragoon** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:02 am

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

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:03 am

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.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:20 pm

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.

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:14 pm

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'.

Post by **evands** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:28 am

That should be 'name' or 'username'. %@ is part of a complete user name; the dialog is requesting you to select the complete user name.

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