i18n: `Benötigt keine Übersetzung. Für Android wird nur die formelle Übersetzung verwendet (de_DE).`

[stefan-niedermann]

Recently a user contacted me with the following error prompt in the Notes Android app (LineageOS 18.1):

Separate from being guilty myself for the failure itself, I was curious about the error message, so I did some research.

There are two german translations: de and de-rDE. While the translations of de-rDE look fine, all translations of de look quite odd.

Probably one thought, they would not ever appear on the UI, but this seems to be the case.

• Should one dig more into this?
• Should we simply add proper traanslations to the de file`?

[David-Development]

Hm.. weird. I assume the user is in austria or switzerland? I believe for germany the language code would be de-rDE. Since we don't have de-rCH the fallback will be values-de. At leasts that's what I'm getting from the following explanation on stackoverflow. So we'd only need values-de and values-de-rDE can and probably should be deleted if we don't plan on having any special translations for Germany / Switzerland / Austria.

The difference between values-de-rDE and values-de is that the first is referring to the country and language, while the other only requires the language.

What region is chosen can be determined in System Settings. German (Germany) is values-de-rDE while German (Switzerland) is values-de-rCH, but both are values-de.

If the system is set to German (Germany), it will first read all values from values-de-rDE, then the missing values from values-de, and finally from the default values.

This is useful for when values contains American English, and values-en-rGB can provide only the strings that are different (i.e. colour, flavour, customise).

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26415196/13370504

[stefan-niedermann]

So what needs to be done to fix this? Just delete the region derivates? Ensure they aren't transferred from transifex in the future?

[David-Development]

@stefan-niedermann Exactly. At least that's my understanding 😅 Just keep values-de and delete all the other derivates.

[stefan-niedermann]

How do we ensure they won't be readded by the next transifex merge?

[tobiasKaminsky]

Fix is in nextcloud/docker-ci#472

[nickvergessen]

Fixed in 8b62eba

[stefan-niedermann]

Awesome, thanks :)

Guess we can close this issue then?