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roseverte5 years ago(+1)

@Amos

I'm considering to help the translation to Japanese (I passed N1, have been living in Japan for 8 years, and have the experience of working in Japanese game company), but then I saw an article mentioned that itch io have already cooperated with a Japanese localization company to translate the itch client and further more.

I'm getting confused now. In the setting page, it still says "itch needs your help to translate" (translated 59% now) but, do you still accept help to translate to Japanese or will you let the company handle everything so there is no necessary for EN-JP translator? 

And other thing I'm curious about, is there any method to access itch io homepage in Japanese? Since Japanese users doesn't speak English and some is even scared of English.  

Thank you and let me know if I can help at anything :)

Oh yes, I also found some glitch in Japanese which might need to be fixed.

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Amos5 years ago

Hi roseverte,

Help for translating to Japanese is always welcome, we haven't heard from the company in a while. Please post your weblate.itch.ovh username so I can make you a translation manager for japanese!

Re the homepage: it isn't translated yet, we have plans, but it's not there yet.

Re the Japanese glitch, you can open an issue at:

Thanks!

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roseverte5 years ago

Hi. The cooperation with the Japanese company was mentioned quite big in Japan media. Can I make sure it won't be a problem if I help? (Like, will it violate the agreement or so?) And will the company still be credited of the translation even if I continue it?

Other question is, how could I know where the text I translate will be displayed at? I think most of them are for the website, but I don't know how to view the website in Japanese at this moment to check if there is any weird glitch or not. Is there a method to view the current website in Japanese?

Thank you :) 

PS. I'm thinking to help translating whenever I have time, but I don't want to make it as a "job" to me. Is it ok to be the manager in this situation? I'm afraid of the responsibility ^^;  If it's ok my username there is also roseverte

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Amos5 years ago

Hi again!

We never had an exclusive deal with the translation company, so there's no problem for volunteers to go ahead!

I made you manager on weblate - that doesn't come with any responsibilites, only power - your changes no longer need 2+ votes to be accepted. You can contribute whenever you have time, no pressure!

All the strings on weblate are only for the app, the website doesn't have localized strings at all (at the time of this writing).

Strings in the app update shortly after they're saved on weblate - updates show up in https://github.com/itchio/itch/commits - all contributors appear in https://github.com/itchio/itch/graphs/contributors

Hope this answers your questions!

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roseverte5 years ago(+1)

Thank you very much for the information!

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roseverte5 years ago

Hi. I've  waited for a whole night, but the translation hasn't been updated on the app yet, is this the correct behavior? I noticed the percentage is increased, but text is still mostly in English, including those I've translated. Thank you!

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Amos5 years ago

Hey, just fixed an error for the Japanese and Korean translation updates - can you try again? You can force a locale update in Preferences (the 'refresh' button on the right of the language picker)

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roseverte5 years ago (1 edit)

Thank you. I can see some of them is applied (like about the update/ recent activity), but some are still in English (especially those I recently translated, about the install locations). Probably it would need more time?

If I'm correct, the translations made by upvoting are applied, but those I added manually are not.

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Amos5 years ago(+1)

That's probably something else - weblate "batches" translations and commits several at a time.  If your changes don't show up here: https://github.com/itchio/itch/blob/master/src/static/locales/ja.json then weblate hasn't pushed them yet.

You can force weblate to push in the "Tools" menu (there's a "Commit" entry), directly from weblate.itch.ovh

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roseverte5 years ago

Sorry again, so I noticed my change "usage_stats.last_played_time_ago": "最後にプレイしたのは {{time_ago}}" which I made hours ago, is already appeared on that site,  but it hasn't appeared on my app even if I already refresh/ close and open again for a while...

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roseverte5 years ago

Yes, I just confirm even a whole night passed, nothing is updated again on the app, so the issue still persists

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