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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Untranslated strings page is empty
There was an untranslated strings page for ruSO at least. It's not working anymore, i.e. the page is exist, but there are no strings.
Is it a bug, or intentional behaviour?
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Flag summary page title may overflow into description block for non-English UI sites
In case of localized sited (in particular for Stack Overflow in Russian) and for a small screen there is a design issue with the head block of the flag summary page. For instance title of the current ...
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Is Meta SE a good place to post bugs and feature request to traducir.win?
In the end of the 2018 for at least two sites: Stack Overflow in Spanish and Stack Overflow in Russian were decided to use traducir.win site to make or update translations used on the sites interface ...
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Add “not” string into Transifex [duplicate]
On the search result page if you exclude tags in filter, for example, [дефект] -[локализация], there is not translated word "not".
I didn't find this string neither in Transifex nor in traducir. ...
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The description for the “unclear what you are asking” and “primarily opinion-based” close reasons need translation
The descriptions for the unclear what you are asking and primarily opinion-based close reasons are not translated on any international site
SOes:
SOpt:
SOja
SOru
I've searched on ...
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Wrong string id is used in Advanced Search Tips
As far as I can see the string "Answers" from the Advanced Search Tips is used from the wrong transifex id:
According to the current translation on ruSO I see the usage of pluralizable form "...
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Do Not Capitalize Each Word In Tabs
Could you please remove the automatic capitalization on tabs (e.g. Question page, Users page) for localized sites like Stack Overflow in Russian and "Русский язык"?
This lies on the ...
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Inconsistent style for “Rev” block breaks formatting on Russian languaged sites
Editing a post with at least 2 revisions on the separated page (just open "edit" link below the post in the new window) shows the "Rev" combobox:
The main issue here is using the word "Rev" on ...
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“Flagging is a way…” text on top of the own flags page is not translatable
There is a new block of text on each one's flag page:
Flagging is a way to bring inappropriate content or behavior to the attention of the community. See: What is flagging?
These are the flags ...
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“Edit removed during grace period” is not translatable in a couple of contexts
The text "Edit removed during grace period" is out of translation engine for a couple of situations:
on the post edit page:
on the profile activity tab revision subtab
On the same time the ...
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404 page content for deleted question is different between full and mobile sites
Checked on this deleted question, mobile view is on the left side:
The minimum which could be done is to add an item point before “Google search ...” sentence for mobile view.
In the general I ...
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Localize analytics page strings
Could you make those strings on the site analytics page available for localization?
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Multiple pluralization bugs on the User Activity page on (at least) the Spanish Stack Overflow site, if not others(?)
Following up on yesterday’s somewhat related bug report, I have
today discovered that
the User Activity page on the Spanish SO site has various bugs in its pluralization:
Notice ...
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Pluralization bug in reported badges on Spanish and Portuguese Stack Overflow sites
It looks like you have a localization bug on the Badges
pages on the fully localized versions of Stack Overflow.
You’ve matched the gender but not the number, so your concord is wrong: you ...
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“Your delete vote has been recorded” message for undelete vote [duplicate]
When I have voted for undeletion, the system showed me message about deletion.
And looks like it isn't the localization problem, 'cause in traducir everything is fine: https://ru.traducir.win/...
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Absolute and relative dates displayed in OS language in Android app
Dates for posts and comments are displayed in OS language in Android app instead of site (or the app) language.
This looks weird on sites where main language is different from the OS language.
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Please include the logical operators for tags browsing in Transifex
Currently when you search for a combination of tags in localized Stack Overflow you get some text in English. For example in Stack Overflow en español:
https://es.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/...
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Counter's text is truncated in queue on localized sites
SOru:
SOes:
Can you fix it? It looks very ugly. Make it flexible, or, at least, increase width of .dashboard-item .dashboard-count.
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Are current and past events pages using the same string for case when there are no events?
I'm not sure about past events: https://stackoverflow.com/badges/get/events?tab=past
But https://stackoverflow.com/badges/get/events?tab=current uses text:
There are no events being planned right ...
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Elements on review stat popup overlap window rectangle
On MSE (English):
On ruSO (Russian):
On jaSO (Japaneese):
On ptSO (Portuguese):
On esSO (Spanish):
Also note that progress indicator (white/green line) is not centered between ...
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The Transifex strings “X wiki description” y “X tag wiki excerpt” are not being used
In Stack Overflow en español we can see user profiles with this content:
As seen, it shows:
ntlk wiki description
and
ntlk tag wiki excerpt
Looking at traducir.win we find the string ...
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Bug in CSS for side menu while editing profiles in Spanish and Portuguese sites (inter alia)
You should not be applying the capitalize text-transform on international sites, because that’s wrong “culturally inappropriate” for those languages. This is because you have a bug in the last line ...
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Is it possible to search for words containing accented characters in chat?
If I remember correctly, on the main site the search is "accent-blind" in the sense that, for example, searching for José and Jose returns the same set of result. (Perhaps in different orders, exact ...
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Separate keys for the “About” string in Transifex
On SOen About on the tag page:
and in the footer:
are the same.
But on SOru (and, probably, on other localized sites) about in footer is О компании (like about the company), and on tag's ...
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Timeline for answer has extra space character in HTML title section
On Stack Overflow in Russian we (OK, I) added French quotes, «», around the title in transifex: here and here.
Check here for example on site: https://ru.stackoverflow.com/posts/891304/timeline
If ...
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Problem with translations at moved question
One question was moved from ruSO to enSO and after moving I saw this incorrect translation:
This problem earlier occured in other places: Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language ...
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Welcome! instead of ¡Bienvenido! on es.stackoverflow.com [duplicate]
I created a new account to take a look as new user to new responsive design. After the sign-up page, the right panel shows a "Welcome box". The problem is that the heading is in English instead of ...
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Keyboard shortcuts don't work with a Russian keyboard layout
For example, with a Russian layout we can open only the Help window with Shift + ?. Even for this we have to use a different button on the keyboard (the ? on 7 button).
But the rest of the shortcuts ...
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Add plural forms for synonym votes range strings
Tooltip for tag synonym vote count can contains two different strings:
key: ea140cb5f7b850c2ee1df44c9c7395c2
total votes (when a synonym gets a score of $ScoreRequiredToApprove$ it is ...
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“Discussion on question by …” should be allowed to translate for localized sites
When the comments under the post body are migrated to the chat, chat room name is automatically set to "Discussion on question by {username}: {question-title}":
Such text is not available to ...
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No plural forms for “reputation”
Keys: 6fed0ce6808435a1b1cff1c17a4c957a and 8d9bec4f224970e231041639de877092.
Should be "репутации".
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“Edit list” and “View network profile” links on Profile page are in different lines on Russian Stack Overflow
English SO:
Russian SO:
From the UX perspective, it is not obvious that these are different links. And generally it doesn't look well with this alignment.
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History and excerpt history links on the tag info page are on different lines on Russian Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow in English:
Stack Overflow in Russian:
As I can see, class post-menu on ru SO has width limitations on this block:
.post-menu {
font-size: 11px;
width: ...
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Code of conduct top banner for localized sites
As far as I see the top banner with Code of Conduct notice (open the site with browser's private mode on) only visible on Stack Overflow en español and Русский язык Stack Exchange:
The rest ...
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The Civic Duty badge description in the queue statistic doesn't fit the modal window on Russian Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Probably, the problem could be also on other localized sites.
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The title “URL” in Advanced Search Tips should not be uppercased for localized sites
In the Advanced Search Tips table the title "URL" is uppercased via css style:
HTML sourse looks like this:
<th scope="row" class="tt-uppercase">url</th>
Such approach is not ...
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Generic string is used on localized sites instead of unique for Web presence fields errors on profile settings page
Error on en SO:
Same error on ru SO:
Strings from Transifex:
Looks like En SO uses strings with keys: 24fcebcdd33add36a026175fcc6b8f74 (for Github) and 69a340efb2d565ff161c9b5dd45e9c38 ...
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Broken Ignored Tags block if text can't fit on one line [duplicate]
It's ok with english:
But, for example, on ru StackOverflow the text doesn't fit on one line, so text isn't aligned:
If I add css width rules to .s-checkbox, .s-radio it will be ok:
.s-checkbox, .s-...
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How could localized sites translate strings before the update actually rolled out?
We have questions about that on ru Stack Overflow:
Как в локализованных сообществах заранее узнавать о нововведениях в сети SE?
Нет перевода текстов на индикаторах новичков
The questions were ...
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Information about the date of last change of the string in Transifex
Currently there is no information about the date, when the string was added/changed in Transifex. (The Localization Platform used by Stack Exchange for the localized sites)
We can filter by date and ...
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Problem with Cyrillic symbols on the Code of Conduct page of ruSO
There is a problem with the font on the Code of Conduct page of ruSO. As you can see below, the font quite different.
English:
Russian:
As I can see, original font contains Cyrillic symbols. But SO ...
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Messages from the chat system are not localized
On SO en español we found a message that is not localized and also not on Transifex:
Is there a way to localize that string?
EDIT (is not a duplicate)
The duplicate question not applied to this, ...
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New Code of Conduct for international sites. No link?
International sites, like SO en español or SO em português (Can't really access to Ja or Ru), doesn´t have a banner at the top pointing to the new Code of Conduct.
We are rushing to get a version 1 ...
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Post feedback popups not localized
When trying to downvote an answer on Stack Overflow em Português (which I can't do because I do not have the required 125 reputation), the popup "Thanks for the feedback" is still in English:
I ...
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Newsletter localization issues
Some strings are not translatable (I can't found them in Transifex) in monthly newsletter. In particular:
The translation of one possible "answered by" string is not used here.
Another problem ...
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Weird behaviour for radio buttons for ignored tag on localized sites
Switching mode for how the questions with ignored tags will be handled has weird visual behavior (blue circle size is too large) on localized sites, e.g. ruSO:
Seems this is happens due to the ...
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Troubles with translated tag pop-ups
We translated 'Watch Tag', 'Ignore Tag' and so on and got this as a result:
I think it should be fixed.
Moreover, other languages faced the same:
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Upper case in tips
Please approve the same rules of writing titles in tips on "Русский язык" Meta as they are on the main site. In Russian, only the first letter in a title is capitalized.
Correct:
Incorrect:
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Upper case in the interface of profile settings
I wonder to know that we have different register rules of writing titles in profile settings on Stack Overflow на русском and "Русский язык" site. In Russian, it is important not to use capital ...
