Questions tagged [localization]
For questions about adapting Stack Exchange to the needs of users from a specific cultural, linguistic or geographical background.
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Viewed count uses incorrect plural form for suffixed value
It seems that the viewed count below the question title uses the plural form based on the exact value, but not on the suffixed (rounded) one with k:
In this particular case, the correct translations ...
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"Score of" loses translation after voting on question
In the review queues the score of a question (related to the currently reviewed item) is displayed, e.g. in the low quality posts queue:
Here all looks fine until you make a vote on the question. ...
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Plural forms are needed for close notice
There's only single form for question close notice:
Closed $closedAgo$ by $closeUsersComma$.
For the purpose of localization we need different plural forms for that type of sentence since $...
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What's the purpose of same sentences with and without plural forms?
There're a couple of the same sentences in traducir.win:
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If that question doesn’t answer your issue, edit your question to highlight the ...
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Will original answers but translated by AI receive the same treatment as answers spontaneously generated by AI?
As announced on Stack Overflow Meta, the use of content generated by ChatGPT is temporarily banned.
It was stated in Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
Stack Overflow is a community built on trust. ...
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Incorrect encoding while removing access for applications
On international sites there's an encoding issue when removing the access from authorized applications:
esSO
jaSO
ruSO
The original English wording is:
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Unable to translate "Insert" and "Cancel" buttons on insert link popup while editing the tag description
Editor used for modifying tag description has an (very) old design. In that design it's not possible to make translations for buttons "Insert" and "Cancel":
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Unable to translate "Looking for your Teams?"
On all SE sites with non-English user interface phrase "Looking for your Teams?" on the left part of the main page is not available to translation, e.g. doesn't exist in traducir. For ...
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Where can I look at English localization strings on Stack Exchange?
This question's title may confuse you, but I'm sure that there are English-to-English translations on each Stack Exchange site that uses the English language as a main in the user interface.
For ...
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Meta posts without required tags on some localized sites
I found that on some localized sites there are the posts without required tags:
ruSO.meta
esSO.meta
rusSE.meta
It may be related to the old (but still persist) bug: Questions migrated to localized ...
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Username displayed shifted to the bottom in comments
The username for staff-mod is displayed shifted to the bottom in the comment section on a narrow screen (e.g., Android Chrome):
Other comments for this user could be found here.
A comment from ...
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No space between text and buttons on tag top users page
There's no space between text and buttons on tag top users page:
Related to ruSO, rusSE.
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Prevent tabs dancing for all actions page
There's a tab "dancing" (tab and text on the same row or not) on All Actions page of User Profile for ruSO and rusSE due to long enough words used in translations:
Could we please somehow ...
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Next badge search input is too tall
On some localized SO sites (like ruSO, esSO, ptSO) the height of badge search input is too large due to wrapping the filter buttons on the left:
Could this please be fixed somehow?
Tested on iPad ...
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Unable to translate "to" part for migration notice
The old resolved bug is relevant again, but only for "migrated to" part.
I can't find that "to" in traducir source strings.
But the better way is to use full sentence to translate ...
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Unused meta tags that still persist
I found that some meta sites have tags that actually have not been used for a long time and are not deleted yet. Looks like these are some sort of "special" potential popular tags for ...
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Unable to translate "Signup" displayed during site maintenance
I can't find the string to translate "Signup" displayed during site maintenance:
Moreover, the tail part of sentence is present as a separate string:
https://ru.traducir.win/strings/6317
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Translation of maintenance banner message
Should this banner message be available to translate?
This type of message has specific structure, i.e.:
<maintenance...> <...dates range...> <...readonly>
So the staff can make a ...
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Bug: UI strings with mixed localization in popup message [duplicate]
On Ask Ubuntu I bookmarked a question ("saved for later"?), and the popping-up green notification message contains text with mixed locales: English mixed with some Cyrillic text; please. See ...
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Space SE: "Question saved to На потом." Why is "for later" shown in Russian? [duplicate]
Moments ago I saved the Space SE question Power and frequency units used in Deep Space Network XML data? and the usual banner appeared, but with mixed English and Russian. Screenshot below at 2022-12-...
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Incomplete localization of the Winter Bash hat popup text translation
The translation of the Winter Bash popup is incomplete on foreign language Stack Overflow sites:
https://es.stackoverflow.com/
https://pt.stackoverflow.com/
https://ja.stackoverflow.com/
https://...
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Why are the saves categories in wrong language?
On https://stackoverflow.com, when I go to my profile to the tab "Saves" it looks like this:
Strangely the tabs "For later" and "All saves" are in Russian.
На потом
I ...
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Unable to translate "Change inbox filter" tooltip
It seems that in new inbox somebody forget to make "Change inbox filter" tooltip translatable.
I can't find this sentence in traducir.
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"All saves", "For later" and "View answer" (in the interface of the saves) are not translated
The strings "All saves" and "For later" are not translated on internationalized sites.
These strings have been translated by traducir.win for the Japanese and Russian sites.
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Badge for helping with UI-text translation/localization on non-English international sites
Good behaviour encouraged: help add localizations for UI text on international non-English sites.
Bronze: 1 translation contributed
Silver: I don't know (discuss!)
Gold: I don't know
I don't know ...
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Who owns the copyright of translation files for internationalized sites?
The translation work of international sites is based on the translation file published in Transifex.
Many people have contributed to the translation of these files.
(Currently working via Traducir)
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Error on sign in to traducir.win
We use traducir.win to translate text for the international Stack Exchange sites, so they get properly localized.
I just tried to sign in to the Russian traducir.win and got the following error:
The ...
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Title of unanswered page cannot be translated
On SO.ja, select "スコア (Score)" order on the question list page, the page title "Highly scored unanswered question" cannot be translated.
Bug report on ja.SO meta
I've already added ...
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How can I bypass automatic string-tag conversion? [duplicate]
On Politics, I wanted to make a search for questions related to the conflict in Ukraine.
There are many questions on the topic which don't have the tag [ukraine] attached to them, but on searching for ...
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Part of new privilege notification text is in Russian [duplicate]
I just got a notification that I'd earned a new site privilege. For some reason, though, part of the notification text is in Russian, not English:
Apparently it says "Узнайте больше об этом в ...
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The new answer sorting menu appears in English even on language specific sites
It appears that the new sorting menu has been rolled out network-wide, but no exception was made for our language specific sites:
Stack Overflow на русском (Question from screen capture)
Stack ...
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User card Overflow / Underflow ™ on non-English sites
On this question on Stack Overflow en español, the text on the user cards for both the author and the last editor cause an overflow/underflow:
GlorfindelMod
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Encoding issue for error message when editing is not possible
When trying to edit a locked post, e.g. https://pt.stackoverflow.com/posts/301/edit or https://es.stackoverflow.com/posts/22393/edit, the error message suffers from encoding issues:
Esta publicação ...
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Add context to same translatable strings
Before today I thought that if the Transifex/traducir database contains the same original strings, they must have an additional different context (or/and plural values) field on which people can make ...
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Unable to translate "Highest score" related sentences
There are no sentences to translate via ru.traducir.win:
"Highest score"
"Highest scored questions" // from the page <title> tag
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Add pluralization option to impact block related strings
Currently there are no strings depend on count in impact block of user profile page activity tab:
Each item has only one sentence to translate:
people reached
posts edited
helpful flags // ...
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English numeric-agreement bugs in the user profile questions tab
When viewing the results of the question tab for a user profile, you are presented with grammatically incorrect English. It erroneously uses plural count nouns following a count of one:
The same ...
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Some translated strings do not take effect
With the site update, some translated strings have been "discarded".
We've re-added the new translation, but the changes don't take effect.
Bug report on ja.SO meta
"$count$ questions ...
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Not enough horizontal space for image uploader on some localized sites
For instance, on Stack Overflow in Spanish as well as on Stack Overflow in Russian there's not enough horizontal space for the image uploader in responsive design on my phone:
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Use the localized SE site's language for links to the Creative Commons' licensing pages
Any post timeline contains a link to the Creative Commons' license pages. For modern posts, it is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. As far as I see, there are many different languages ...
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Separate Editor badge and other usages of word "Editor" in translations
On Stack Overflow in Russian we have "Младший редактор" badge. This is a creative translation of original badge named "Editor". The translation "Младший редактор" (junior ...
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Unable to translate "more than a week ago" on profile page
The sentence "more than a week ago" for the last seen section on the profile page is not available to translate.
I can't find it in traducir.win.
Could this please be fixed?
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"Save Tag Edits" translation not used anymore
It seems that "Save Tag Edits" text appeared on self named buttons not used for translations anymore:
Transifex returns nothing: https://www.transifex.com/stack-exchange/stack-overflow-ru/...
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Are there rewards for translators on Stack Exchange sites?
Are there any rewards (eg. badge(s) or reputation benefits) available for the people who contribute to the translations of non-English Stack Exchange sites (eg. Stack Overflow en español) through ...
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Every "about" to translate should have its own source string
An old issue regarding the "About" section of the profile: Separate keys for the "About" string in the Transifex is happening again.
This time, it's in the new user profile layout:
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Broken highlighting for digest title with quotes
There is a text highlighting issue in the digest letter preview when title contains quotes. For instance:
Stack Overflow in Russian Meta
Russian Language Stack Exchange
For some reason the final ...
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What's the purpose of the "stackoverflow" user on Transifex and how does it relate to the "traducir.win" user?
I caught a weird translation issue on ruSO and found an interesting moment on Transifex.
For some reason, the "stackoverflow" user adds an unnecessary space symbol right before (according ...
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Chat suspension sentence on the Contact page cannot be localized
Several days ago, I posted a bug report: Extra "room" word in chat suspension sentence
That question was marked status-completed, but the issue looks like it wasn't completed as well as it ...
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To who are translations licensed in Stack Exchange international sites that are submitted by community users?
International sites translate much of their content (other than questions and answers) with the help of community users.
How are these contributions licensed?
There are more than 10,000 strings, not a ...
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Unable to translate "markdown in HTML" part of formatting tips
There's an untranslatable sentence in formatting tips while asking a new question:
Similar block has translation for post edit editor:
Could this sentence please be added for translation DB?
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