Dutch translation for Desktop and Server

[Stephan-P]

Hi,
I'd like to put some effort in making a Dutch translation for Sync-in Desktop and Sync-in Server.
I've checked the existing translations for other languages, e.g. German and I reckon that it'll be a minor task.
However, while browsing the files in the respective i18n directories I noticed significant differences inside the de.json and the en.json, which made me apprehensive of using either of these as a starting point for a nl.json. (Otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have uploaded my two files here this afternoon. '-)
If you could point me to the proper source files from from which I can create the two nl.json files than I am happy to dig in.

As an aside: Would you be considering moving the translation work off to online collaborative translation platforms such as Crowdin, Transifex or Weblate?

Kind regards,
Stephan (an avid Dutch translator of all sorts of (free) software)

[johaven]

Hi @Stephan-P,

Thanks a lot for your interest in Sync-in and for offering to contribute 🙂

You’re right to notice the differences between de.json and en.json.
The English file only contains entries that require variables or specific handling. For the rest, English is already used directly as the translation key, so we didn’t duplicate everything in the English file.

Because of that, other translation files contain the full set of translations.
Since all keys are written in English, you can safely use the Dutch translation as a reference when creating the nl.json files.

I’ve also just updated the i18n section of the contribution guide to describe all the steps. You can find it here:

https://github.com/Sync-in/server?tab=contributing-ov-file#i18n-translations

https://github.com/Sync-in/desktop?tab=contributing-ov-file#i18n-translations

We haven’t looked into the platforms you mentioned yet. On the server side, we would first need to consolidate the backend and frontend translations. After that, we would need to take some time to research and possibly get our project set up on these platforms. We’re currently busy with other priorities, but we’ll get to it eventually 🙂

Thanks again for taking the time to help.

[Stephan-P]

Please find attached the nl.json for the desktop. The file has been validated using https://formatjsononline.com.
For some reason I am not able to add the file myself, so if you could take care of its initial setup, incl. dependencies, then I'll happily take up its maintenance as updates are neseccary.

Edit: ref to uploaded file removed

I'll open a separate issue in the server branch when I've got that nl.json ready.

[johaven]

Could you create a PR by adding the translation file?
I’ll complete the rest.

[johaven]

@Stephan-P I think everything is good now, we can close the topic?

[Stephan-P]

Oh yeah, I forgot to do this myself.