German: Status bar in English

Pierre de la Verre

Not “that” important and maybe a well know topic, but why is the status-bar in German version not translated and displayed in English? (Length, lines, col, …)

Alan Kilborn

@Pierre-de-la-Verre

A good question that an English user (me) has never pondered, for obvious reasons! :-)

Here might be a reason:

There’s limited space there – perhaps things like Ln and Col don’t translate into equivalencies that are as “horizontally short” in other languages? Personally, I think that even in English these are “too long”. L and C would definitely suffice.

Perhaps make a feature request for your translation desire?
Here’s our FAQ entry for how to do that: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request-or-bug-report

Another good question, while pondering the (English) status bar is, why isn’t:

length : 22,067 lines : 190

this, instead:

Length : 22,067 Lines : 190

Everything else is nicely capitalized…

And…note the , in the length data; some locales use . for this separator; are people going to want this “translated” as well?

Lots of things to think about for the lowly status bar. :-(

Alan Kilborn

Here’s another status-bar note: The Sel area looks like it could be getting some enhancement soon. See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8524

Maybe get your opinion in there on how Sel should be translated into German. :-)