Weather plugin in dutch

[hzwaal]

I just installed the Weather plugin and have yet again impressed the wife

As much as I like it, it does not come in dutch, which would improve the WAF some more ;-) In the settings there is no option for dutch. I was wondering why there is a language setting at all, since GBPVR already has such a setting. Couldn't that be used instead as well as the standard translation mechanism?

Another question I have is if there is some other way to make the Weather plugin dutch. All suggestions are - as always - very welcome.

By the way, I'd be happy to provide any dutch translations for the Weather plugin (or any other plugin) if someone needs it... just let me know!

[hzwaal]

I found out that, even though there is no dutch options in the Weather plugin settings, it is possible to translate some of the texts of the plugin using the normal translate mechanism of GBPVR. I have been able to translate some of the texts, but still have trouble with many of them. Does anyone how to enforce that the following texts are translated:

Next City
Previous Map
Next Map
Feels Like:
Visibility:
Humidity:
Dewpoint:
Sunrise:
Sunset:
km/hr
ESE etc

Is it documented somewhere which strings need to be translated?

[SuMo]

Did you try adding:
<translate originalText="Next City" translatedText="Volgende Plaats"/>
to the language.dut.xml ?

[hzwaal]

Yes I did; except that I translated it into "Locatie"

However, it does not get translated. The strange thing is that other pieces of text do get translated. For instance, weather conditions such as Clear, Fair and Cloudy get translated perfectly. The texts in my previous post somehow do not get translated. Could it have something to do with punctation and spaces?

Also, the 'screen title' that says "Weather for ..." does not get translated, even though I have the following lines in my language file:

<translate originalText="Weather" translatedText="Weer"/>
<translate originalText="Weather for" translatedText="Weer voor"/>
<translate originalText="for" translatedText="voor"/>

I'm absolutely clueless as to why this happens? :confused:

[McBainUK]

Have you tried the full text: "Weather for YOUR CITY"?

If not I would say this is a plug-in thing as all screen text needs to be sent to the "translater" in order for that XML file to work.

May want to get hold of Jeff (the author).

[hzwaal]

No :o , I did not try "Weather for MY CITY". I sort of assumed that those were two strings concatenated after translation. That's what I would do, at least, so save people the hassle of including a translation for every city they have configured. I will try it out tonight, though, and let you know.

[hzwaal]

I had a look in the source code and even though C# is new to me, it did give some answers, so I thought I'd share...

The reason for the language option in the weather plugin is that it uses the Google translation service to translate the details of forecasts, that are virtually impossible to translate using the static language file. Too bad there's no English to Dutch on Google.

I could also find many of my translations did not work because they has a colon behind them, whereas the colon is apparently added later (after translation; not for hi and lo though :confused: ).

The "Next City" string I could not find in the source code (only as a command), so that baffles me still, just like the "Weather for" thing, that does seem to get translated according the code, but somehow doesn't end up on my screen

[SuMo]

The only thing I know is that it is verry picky about punctation and spaces.
I did a lot of translations on the old GBPVR ui, and as soon as you used a small letter instead of a capital , where the original was written with a capital it didn't translate.
As McBainUK said, try to get a hold of Jeff, he could defenitly share some light on the subject.

[Jeff]

Currently only the buttons are translated.

These strings are

"Main Menu"
"Current"
"Add"
"Remove"
"Map"
"Forecast"
"Details"

I'll add these additional strings to the next rev.

"Weather for"
"As of #TIME# Local Time"
"Forecast for"
"for"

Note that "#TIME# " should be left in English since this is used to substitute the local time fetched form the Internet.

The standalone string "for" is used with map name, e.g High Temps for Stockholm, SE". The name of the map and the name of the city come for the Internet weather site and will not be translated.

Jeff

[hzwaal]

Jeff: Could you also translate the following strings:

Next City
Next Map
Previous Map

Thanks...