Translations progress, contributors please read this!

[carlosperate]

First of all, thank you!

Any contributions to Mu are always very much appreciated, and translations are a very important part of making Mu accessible to people all over the world 🌎🌍🌏
https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2021/12/13/translate.html

Purpose of this discussion thread

This page will try to list the state of all open translations to try to avoid any effort duplication.

The last release of Mu is beta.6, which hasn't had any of the translations updated, but since that release there might have been translations already done and merged into the project.

You can also use this thread to ask any questions you might have or let us know if you are planning to start any translation update.

Translation instructions

In the docs :)
https://mu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/translations.html

Translations awaiting review

If you don't have the time to do a full translation update, reviewing the submitted translations is also incredibly useful!

• None at the moment.

Translations already updated

These translations have already been updated, but don't be discouraged! There might still be missing strings or some entries could be improved. In those cases please feel encouraged to open a new PR with the updates.

• Portugal Portuguese: Updating pt-PT translation #1795
• Brazilian Portuguese: Update Brazilian Portuguese translation #1924
• Slovak: slovak translation update for upcomming version #1978
• Russian: Add ru_RU translation #1886
• Japanese: Update japanese translate file. #1385
• Chinese (zh_CN): Improve zh-CN translation #2033
• Dutch: Add dutch locale #2111
• Ukrainian: Ukrainian Translation for Mu #2261
• Czech: Europython2023: Include czech translation #2446
• Thai: EuroPython: Thai translation #2447

Translations not yet updated

All the others!

Mu already has some older translations in place, and you can see them in the ./mu/locale/ directory, so you don't have to start from zero, but if your language is not there yet we'd love to add it!

[merwok]

A question: is the name Mu the same as the greek letter µ?

(One translated string explains how to pronounce the name of the editor)

[diliboy88]

mu in greek is muscle.

[carlosperate]

That's a great question! @ntoll talks about this is #1447 (reply in thread)

[merwok]

Thanks 🙂 I’m taking from the answer that it would be correct if I noted in the French translation that the editor name is pronouced mu (like the letter) or miou (like in English).

[carlosperate]

Yeah, that sounds good!

[iamdbychkov]

Hello!
I've reviewed Russian translation of an editor and wanted to start working on Russian translation for a website but noticed that there are 2 pull requests with French and Chinese translations:

mu-editor/mu-editor.github.io#49
mu-editor/mu-editor.github.io#48

which are left without any activity since the end of 2018.

So here is the question, are they not merged because there were no reviewers or there is another reason to it?

[carlosperate]

Hi @iamdbychkov,

I haven't really kept an eye on the website issue tracker, but as all the maintainers are volunteers in their free I would probably guess the issue could have been a lack of time for review, the visibility of the PR (if we don't know a translation is coming), and unfortunately over time just falling through the cracks.

@ntoll do you have any insight?

[merwok]

I am slowly updating the french localization. Many trivial conflicts are caused by the inclusion of line numbers in the comments; in my own projects I prefer to include only filename (good tradeoff to find the source and context easily).

[ghost]

Hi

I reviewed the Dutch translation and it's OK!
It can be added in the next version.

[TamilNeram]

Tamil Translation PR is waiting for so long #2480
Anything to be done from my side for this?

[TamilNeram]

@carlosperate FYA