German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung

[Oberst_Klink]

ORIGINAL: dave_wolf

"Klar" as a terrain type (for 'clear') is just wrong. No German would say that. Try a simple Google search for 'klares gelände' and you get no useful hits. None at all!

Of course I see the problem. There's just no literal translation for 'clear' regarding that context. The only thing that makes sense IMHO (and is being used in almost every other strategy game) is still "Ebene".


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Clear, in some games it's called Open; I simply would translate straight to 'offen'. Offenes Gelände = open terrain.

Klink, Oberst

[Denniss]

Clear is a problem, in english it's used for clear (flat) terrain AND clear weather; I can't separate it for the translation. We currently have to live with "Klar" terrain as I don't like "Eben" weather.

Changelog updated again.

[dave_wolf]

ORIGINAL: Denniss

Minor/Major river could be translated into Fluss and Strom.

On principle it's correct that "Strom" is usually defined as a major river. But other than specialists in German studies almost nobody would notice the difference. To most people those are just synonyms.

[dave_wolf]

Is it on purpose that 'port' (at the hex info tooltip) is not translated?

[Denniss]

ORIGINAL: dave_wolf

Is it on purpose that 'port' (at the hex info tooltip) is not translated?

No, translation added for several strings, changelog updated and attached as textfile.

[dave_wolf]

Is it possible to change 'Armee Gruppe Süd' etc. HQ names as displayed inside the CR (for example at the '42 campaign) to the correct 'Heeresgruppe ...'?

[Denniss]

No. Army + Group are translated but not the string Army Group. It's only correctly shown as Heeresgruppe if you look at OKH attached units.

[dave_wolf]

IMHO 'Entdeckung' for 'detection' is a bad termn. For one, the abbr. 'ENT' can mean a hundred different things and therefore is anything but intuitive. Secondly the usual term for this kind of operation is 'Aufklärung' and the abbr. 'AUFKL' would be much less ambigious.

[dave_wolf]

Info tooltip's 'Nachtluftmission' should be 'Nacht-Luftmission' - if not something else entirely to begin with - otherwise it could be mistaken for 'Nachtluft-Mission' ifyaknowaddimean. [:D]

[Oberst_Klink]

Gentleman,

there's an invaluable DE-EN military dictionary which might come in handy for the translation and localization process as well.

http://www.wartimepress.com/WWII-Archiv ... ations.pdf

Klink, Oberst

[Oberst_Klink]

Fuel, POL, etc. could be translated into Betriebsstoff, abbreciated to: Betr.-St.

Yet another useful site: http://home.arcor.de/sturmbrigade/Abkur ... chnis1.htm

Klink, Oberst

[dave_wolf]

CR - section commanders - column 'MaxB': tooltip shows 'HG' while actual corresponding text is 'AG'.

[Denniss]

thanks, I believe to have it fixed now although with the danger of double-translating AG (from OB) to HG. It'll need some further testing. I'll upload the most recent working copy of the translation file soon.

[dave_wolf]

production screen -> weapon type -> upgrade path info -> Shouldn't 'An' be 'Zu'?

[dave_wolf]

As a side note (and I don't know where to post this): The 78. ID shouldn't be called 'Sturmdivision' before the end of '42.

[dave_wolf]

Plus, where to post manual translation mistakes?

[Denniss]

I suggest to open a new thread for german manual mistakes (list may be very long) but I don't think there's a plan to work on it. Even with access to the source docs this is way too much work.
I asked Jim about the Sturm division, this may be just a small OB name prefix/suffix change.
I'll look into the An:/Zu: issue.

[dave_wolf]

'41 GC: "8. Ung. Grenze Guard Brigade" -> unit info; tooltip shows '...Grenzwachen...'

[Denniss]

One of the issues I can't fix.

[dave_wolf]

ORIGINAL: Denniss

One of the issues I can't fix.

Lack of differentiation of variables (again)?