Hello to all translators,
first of all thanks for your overwhelmingly interest in translating the survival manual! I am writing this as I got a lot of requests and mails regarding the state of translations. From a distance it sounds really easy - and for normal apps it sometimes is - but there are some special problems regarding translation with this app:
- There is text in images - this text has to be extracted so it can be translated. This also makes the app smaller! For a lot of list-style images like https://survivalmanual.github.io/fig08-04.png this is easy - but for images where text is embedded in drawings - this is more complicated
- Currently imperial measuring units ( like miles / fahrenheit ) are used - Ideally this should also be translation vector.
- I imagine changes in the source language - there needs to be a way to keep them in sync ( especially for lists )
- The text must be completely de-militarized before translating - I already did some of that but it is not yet complete
- Having a lot of languages makes the app bigger ( especially if there is a lot of text ) - there need to be a way to deal with this ( e.g. a language-apk split - or downloadable packs ) - I do not want to waste space for a lot of languages I will never read
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These are the reasons I cannot just put the stuff in a translation management interface like transifex and give a go for translators which I would do usually do. If you see solutions to these problems please let me know. At some point I will give a go for translations - but I want to have a system where I have a way to deal with the problems I see - or at least see a way to deal with them in the future and having a way to keep translations in sync.
