How can I help? I'm a native Hebrew speaker.
Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi are the three right-to-left languages that
> Audacity supports. But I think we have not had expert help in updating
> any of these since 2014.
> Today I wrote a fix for one thing Audacity didn't do right for such
> languages: the formatting of the tooltip hover texts for the buttons on
> the Transport toolbar (pause, play, etc.).
> Is anyone who knows those languages reading this now, or can you recommend
> anyone?
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Paul Licameli <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi are the three right-to-left languages that
> Audacity supports. But I think we have not had expert help in updating any
> of these since 2014.
>
> Today I wrote a fix for one thing Audacity didn't do right for such
> languages: the formatting of the tooltip hover texts for the buttons on
> the Transport toolbar (pause, play, etc.).
>
> Is anyone who knows those languages reading this now, or can you recommend
> anyone?
>
> As you know, I am contemplating a push for improved translation quality in
> the next version. This will always depend on the completeness of
> translators' work, outside the expertise of the development team, but it
> also depends on us correcting English grammar biases in the way we make our
> messages.
>
> We have talked much about the plural problems lately (don't assume there
> are no more than two alternate forms!). Right-to-left languages are
> another case to keep in mind (be cautions about concatenation with
> untranslated strings that might be LTR!).
>
> So if you discover any problems peculiar to RTL, let me know.
>
> Paul Licameli
>
>
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