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. :-)

[schnurlos]

Just took 5 years: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/6bc7abb02148a4dd77f535a34c33b65a7fdb9ad1

[PeterJones]

@schnurlos ,

I just looked at the PR you linked to. Going back to the various issues that were linked from there, none of them contained the Sel being untranslatable; the issue Alan mentioned 5 years ago was other features regarding the Sel, and no one even bothered following his link to that issue to actually make a comment there about needing a translation.

So, given that the Developer was never told about the need for it to be translated, it’s rather surprising that it only took 5 years to fix something he wasn’t told about: the fact that it was ever fixed without being reported is what’s amazing to me.

[Alan Kilborn]

And it really isn’t up to the developer, as I’m fairly certain he doesn’t know German.
Thus, it is up to the person providing the German translation; no idea why that person didn’t feel the need to translate Sel.

[PeterJones]

@Alan-Kilborn ,

No, the PR just linked confirmed that the Sel string was not previously translatable, into any language. (It was a hardcoded string, not a string that could be translated using <langname>.xml)

The PR made it possible to supply a translation, German or otherwise.

So while this original post was about “German”, the fix was to make it translatable at all.

[Alan Kilborn]

@PeterJones

Ah…