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RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:24 pm
by 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
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:58 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:51 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:23 pm
by dave_wolf
Is it on purpose that 'port' (at the hex info tooltip) is not translated?
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:50 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:25 pm
by 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 ...'?
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:08 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:04 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:53 pm
by 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]
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:48 pm
by 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
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:01 pm
by 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
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:01 pm
by dave_wolf
CR - section commanders - column 'MaxB': tooltip shows 'HG' while actual corresponding text is 'AG'.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:59 am
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:33 pm
by dave_wolf
production screen -> weapon type -> upgrade path info -> Shouldn't 'An' be 'Zu'?
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:43 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:38 pm
by dave_wolf
Plus, where to post manual translation mistakes?
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:53 pm
by 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.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:25 am
by dave_wolf
'41 GC: "8. Ung. Grenze Guard Brigade" -> unit info; tooltip shows '...Grenzwachen...'
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:43 pm
by Denniss
One of the issues I can't fix.
RE: German translation reworked - überarbeitete deutsche Übersetzung
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:32 pm
by dave_wolf
ORIGINAL: Denniss
One of the issues I can't fix.
Lack of differentiation of variables (again)?