Android: Add more translations (e.g. French, Turkish) #417
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How about Danish? |
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@WiseWomanVP Sure, of course the languages I mentioned are just examples. We should as many as possible, I'd say if you are willing to provide them in Danish, it shouldn't be a problem to add them once a translation manager is configured. |
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A small update from our side: Other, officially supported languages beyond English and German will most certainly come much earlier than expected, not for the first version, but straight afterwards. Once the final list of officially supported languages (you won't be disappointed most certainly ;)) is there, we will publish that list and also ask you all if there are additional ones which you would like to have supported and could translate and choose one or two to kick-start and work on a community translation process. The point is that we still have quite some things to clarify as many UI texts and especially privacy notice, EULA and related things are legally binding documents, so they need to be 100% correct. But I'm quite confident that we will find a solution... More updates will follow as soon as we have them. Thanks, colleagues! Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards, |
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Need someone for Turkish translation? .. :) |
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I know a friend who knows Arabic and I'm fluent in Vietnamese. I suppose you could add support for more locales by simply adding a |
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@pr1metine while the way with "values-(locale)" is correct, I would assume
that SAP/Telekom will use internal processes for the initial translations
and review. After these internal processes have taken place, the
translations will be added to the app and a community text review like
corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android#332 will take
place.
Please note that these are only assumptions - however, a similar process
was followed for German and English.
…On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 08:43 Thanh, ***@***.***> wrote:
I know a friend who knows Arabic and I'm fluent in Vietnamese. I guess you
could add more locales by simply adding a values-[YOUR LOCALE]/strings.xml
to Corona-Warn-App/src/main/res/. Copy and paste the contents of
Corona-Warn-App/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml to your strings.xml
and edit the copy.
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so at the moment, are user-contributed translations for more exotic languages welcome? they could be submitted as merge request changes of the strings.xml |
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@Freundschaft you'd also need to translate the EULA and other legal stuff. Google Translate comes to the rescue. Or deepl.com . |
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Hi I could Contribute with Albanian language - I know English, German and Albanian 👌 is there some text resource list for the entire app? are there images which has text? ping me if interested 😊 |
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Unfortunately, we still don't have a final list of upcoming languages, but you certainly heard the announcement which was made on the release press conference last week. As it turns out, also the management of additional languages is sightly more complicated than originally expected (once again the legal stuff). So there are no additional updates so far. To show that these additional languages will definitely come in one of the next releases, but can't be implemented directly, we move this issue to the cwa-backlog repository. The issue will move back to the development repository once the agreement with the contracting parties has been reached that it's due to be implemented shortly. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards, |
SebastianWolf-SAP
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I would definitely like to volunteer to translate and organize proofreading for the Lithuanian language. At least to start preparing translations to have them in place when legal stuff is figured out. Also, if required I could help with legal issues and public awareness regarding the Lithuanian market. I am a co-owner/product manager of a legal startup in Lithuania. Though @SebastianWolf-SAP one question first. While the app is available in Lithuanian app stores is it fully functioning in Lithuania – would a user be able to report an infection? |
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Independently of the legal issues (still a very complicated issue, but we are getting some languages through the door at least) I can of course answer your questions regarding the functionality. A user who got tested in Lithuania wouldn't be able to report their infection as a valid QR code or a teleTAN is required to submit the result. If you are interested in a cooperation and the steps to connect the existing solution to the Lithuanian infrastructure, please let us know your contact details. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards, |
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Hello community, regarding this topic, we will keep you up to date using the following FAQ entry: https://www.coronawarn.app/en/faq/#available_languages. Thanks, |
ghost
closed this as 
Current Implementation
Currently only German (and English, kind of?) are supported.
Suggested Enhancement
We should add the most spoken languages for immigrants (e.g. Turkish, Arabic) and also languages for our neighbor countries who should use the app when they come to Germany (e.g. French, Dutch, Polish).
We should probably add support for a Translation Management System like Lokalise or Transifex (which both are free for open source projects) to make contributions here easier (for example I could ask my wife who's not a developer to provide Turkish translations then). I could set this up myself if you agree.
Expected Benefits
Immigrants will be able to understand the app in their native language. This is especially important because they might not know as much about the latest news as native speakers, so we should help them within the apps at least.
Also the borders in Germany will not be closed and people are entering Germany and those people should be able to use this app as well because they also come in contact with people in Germany.
Internal Tracking Id: EXPOSUREAPP-2041
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