Move formal german user documentation from "de" to "de_DE"

[rakekniven]

Actually the server and all apps (desktop and mobile as well) have the formal german translation at language code "de_DE".

The user documentation uses code "de" for the formal version (there is no informal version for the user docs).

This confuses translators at Transifex. Not every translator is member of both german teams at Transifex.

Target is to use "de_DE" for user docs as well.

Benefit

• It is clear to the translators that "de_DE" is the formal version.
• Team member are not confused about the mix of de and "de_DE"
• The translation memory (TM) is clean and mature, which means fewer errors occur during automatic matching.

Possible solutions:

• Shift translations at Tx from "de" to "de_DE" and move files to "de" before Sphinx compile.
• change transifex sync to map from de_DE to de -> See comments from @nickvergessen
  I'm not sure if all possibilities have been tried here (due to time constraints)
• ... ?

[rakekniven]

@nickvergessen Which steps are necessary for the shift?

[nickvergessen]

That would break all links that were posted anywhere, so I'm against this?

[rakekniven]

See discussion at https://help.nextcloud.com/t/die-deutsche-ubersetzung-von-nextcloud-hier-diskutieren-und-fehler-melden-was-sollte-ich-wissen-wenn-ich-bei-der-ubersetzung-helfen-mochte-oder-eine-anmerkung-habe/32139/624

The user docs have not been available in translated form for very long.
That's why there aren't many links yet, I think. In a quick search, I found most of the links to the English docs on German-language sites.

My vote is therefore for the Shift. This would remove an inconsistency for the translators.

[nickvergessen]

Sphinx itself supports German as de only:
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-language

Best idea I could come up with would be trying to change transifex sync to map from de_DE to de there.

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But while reading the docs:

e.g. the German version of myfigure.png will be myfigure.de.png by default setting

This sounds very interesting for us :)

[rakekniven]

Sphinx itself supports German as de only

We have "fi_FI" and "hu_HU" as well. How does that work?

Best idea I could come up with would be trying to change transifex sync to map from de_DE to de there.

Thought of this solution as well. At least there would be no confusion for the translators at Transifex

[nickvergessen]

We have "fi_FI" and "hu_HU" as well. How does that work?

They don't …

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/nb_NO/

It says "Edit on Github" and "Next" for the pagination

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/de/

German says "Auf GitHub bearbeiten" and "Nächste Seite"

[rakekniven]

Best idea I could come up with would be trying to change transifex sync to map from de_DE to de there.

Do you have an idea how to achieve this?

[nickvergessen]

I wonder if the language map is for that and wanted to try it on Friday, but then something crossed my plans.
E.g. we have fi_FI: fi as part of it https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/blob/main/.tx/config#L3

https://help.transifex.com/en/articles/6265125-github-installation-and-configuration#h_94380d9cd8

I tried adding that for fi_FI now, so let's see if that correctly moves it from fi_FI to fi in https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/tree/master/user_manual/locale

[rakekniven]

Have you seen the differents of the yaml examples and our json code?

I tried adding that for fi_FI now

Where did you make the changes? Haven't seen a related PR in docs repo.

[nickvergessen]

In Transifex in the GitHub Sync settings, but it seemed to have no effect:

Ref https://help.transifex.com/en/articles/6265125-github-installation-and-configuration#h_94380d9cd8

The REMOTE_CODE is the language code supported by Transifex. And the LOCAL_CODE is your language code.

So I would have expected uk from Transifex syncs down as uk_UA, but the files are still in uk: https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/tree/master/user_manual/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES

[nickvergessen]

But now that I posted it, maybe it is not translated 100%, let me try a sync with less %

[rakekniven]

Hello,

any news here?

[rakekniven]

Ping :-)