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Internationalisation of MainMenu
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Gerriet M. Denkmann
I am trying to make an macOS app international.
On thing is MainMenu.strings. This contains lots of stuff which must have an official translation (e.g. into German) already. (e.g. Edit → Cut). Is there a way to get this official translation? I want all standard stuff translated using the official nomenclature, so that I have only to translate menu items which are specific to my app. Gerriet. |
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Quincey Morris
On Mar 28, 2018, at 22:46 , Gerriet M. Denkmann <g@...> wrote:
It seems like there ought to be, but I don’t think there is. I would assume that menu items that get added to your app at runtime (e.g. the ones at the bottom of the Edit menu) will be localized for you. It’s also documented somewhere that the words “Undo” and “Redo” are automatically localized when you supply undo action names. Other than that, you’re probably on your own. |
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Gary L. Wade
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Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 30 Mar 2018, at 05:06, Gary L. Wade <garywade@...> wrote:Thanks a lot for this link! Looking at the German stuff, I see that for example “Print…” gets translated: 29 times: "Drucken …" NO-BREAK SPACE; HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS 56 times: “Drucken …" HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS What is right: SPACE or NO-BREAK SPACE ? Does this make any difference? Another problem is missing context in MainMenu.strings: “Cut” would have certainly a quite different translation in: Edit Cut Paste Hairdressing Cut Perm But the only context given is: /* Class = "NSMenuItem"; title = "Cut"; ObjectID = "uRl-iY-unG"; */ But I guess nothing can be done to get this needed context into MainMenu.strings. Kind regards Gerriet. -- |
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Quincey Morris
On Mar 31, 2018, at 18:31 , Gerriet M. Denkmann <g@...> wrote:
It *might* make a difference if the font specifies a different width for the non-breaking space than a regular space. Since this is not a typeset environment, you can’t rely on a layout manager to reassign values to space characters, so you want all the spaces to be the same width. Hence use the same character. (In practice, there’s likely no noticeable difference.)
It was reported in the developer forums recently that the localization comment field that you can enter in IB (the very last field of the Identity inspector) isn’t being output for Mac targets, though it is for iOS. I don’t know if this is fixed in Xcode 9.3. If it does work, this is where you can specify the context. |
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Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 1 Apr 2018, at 10:29, Quincey Morris <quinceymorris@...> wrote:Seems not to work in Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145).Another problem is missing context in MainMenu.strings:But the only context given is:It was reported in the developer forums recently that the localization comment field that you can enter in IB (the very last field of the Identity inspector) isn’t being output for Mac targets, though it is for iOS. I don’t know if this is fixed in Xcode 9.3. If it does work, this is where you can specify the context. Also: this is really something Xcode should to for me. Kind regards, Gerriet. |
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