Greetings from Finland,
I am about to finish the Finnish translation and there is one quite 
important question concerning which I would hope to receive some guidance.
In schools we use the German notename system in which notename 'b' is 
'h' (for the other exceptions check the bottom of the message). 
Translating the notenames to this system does not seem to work fully:
For example Id tone config window shows 'h' but even in the same 
exercise the Practise window always uses 'b'.

Most people I've played with speak about 'b' instead of 'h' so this 
would not be such a major problem for most rockers but since I have 
found Solfege potentially promising tool for the children beginning 
classical training at the conservatory, I would be prone to think that 
the more traditionally oriented teachers would greet the software and 
use it with even more enthusiasm if there was no notename mismatch 
between the software and their books. Thus getting the German system 
work would be recommended.

The best possible solution would be that the user could set the notename 
system from the Preferences.

I'm not totally new to Poedit, but while translating Solfege it seems 
not to have compiled the .mo -files correctly - some translations that 
are there on the .po-file need to be cleared and copy-pasted again to 
the same place (and saved immediately) to make them work in the 
.mo-file. Anyhow, this does not seem to be the problem with notenames 
since I've tried the same correction that works with other lines of 
translations several times and the conclusion is: other lines work when 
re-entered, notename lines work only partly (as mentioned in Id tone 
example).

So... any help/guidelines would be much appreciated. If most people just 
want to kick out the German system for good I will accommodate with the 
opinion and go on with my life (slightly bitter though ;) but it is a 
point to consider first.

Kind regards,
Tuomas


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B-note in German system

Basic form: 'h' instead of 'b'
augmented h: his
diminished h: b
doubly-augmented h: hisis
doubly-diminished h: bb

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