Localization

[jobbautista9]

We did a quick text replace on the locale files, but a lot of the links in those files no longer point to working URLs due to the text replace. Some URLs didn't change, but I don't think we should rely on Audacity for localization, because eventually our features will drift off upstream. We should form our own translation teams that will be there to maintain our locales.

Unfortunately I don't speak any of the languages currently localized, but I do speak Tagalog, and I plan on writing a fresh translation for Tagalog. Should take like a week or two to translate all of those 19800+ lines...

Also, someone suggested in the Tenacity fork (tenacityteam/tenacity#145) to add an en locale file. I think this would be a good idea to pursue, to make it easier to work with code by separating logic from content. Another suggestion (tenacityteam/tenacity#125) is to use a web-based software localization tool to make it easier for translators to create and edit translations. We can use Weblate or Mozilla Pontoon for this. Both of them are free software.

[EinBaum]

I volunteer to fix the German and Russian translations (if anything is missing)

[ImGonnaChuck]

Honestly I guarantee you 99.9% of ESL people who find this project will know enough English to get around. The problem might be if they happen to have the OS in their native laguage. In that case it might be better to ask the user what language to use. Translating the documentation isn't very important either IMO, but it doesn't hurt to keep local copies of the pre existing stuff of course.

[Sneedfan115]

I volunteer to fix the German and Russian translations (if anything is missing)

Look at the translator pulling up with his fancy German tongue

[EinBaum]

I volunteer to fix the German and Russian translations (if anything is missing)

Look at the translator pulling up with his fancy German tongue

guatemalan dialect

[comradekingu]

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tenacity/ is already on Weblate, the far superior offering.
Using that instance allows sharing the translation memory and not duplicating effort.

@ChucksConsulting Part of the point is to have more eyeballs on the source strings, which in turn improves the stringbase for everyone.

@jobbautista9 Edit: If https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/discussions/382 is indicative of things to come, relying on Tenacity is not an option. I'll invite some translators if you get it set up on https://hosted.weblate.org/hosting/ (no cost).