Russian translation

[rchintsov]

Full Russian translation. Based on the original file (follows instructions from CONTRIBUTING.md).
Contains a few TODOs for future work.

[forrestguice]

@rchintsov I'll merge this later this week.

If you need to make additional changes, you can continue making commits (and push them), and they will show up here automatically. That should trigger the CI to produce another debug apk.

#683

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice Ok, thanks. I'll commit fixes within a hour.

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice All job is done. If there are any changes, I think they'll be very small.
Please, take a look at TODO notes, I can't solve most of it without your help.

UPD: Now Suntimes looks like a native Russian application, that is in a way incredible for me. I'm very glad that I had a hand to this, and now, looking at the result, I can't believe it looks so plausible. :)

UPD2: My special thanks for the CI pipeline. Without it, I wouldn't be able to add fixes so quickly.

[forrestguice]

This should probably be "Action: Строка действия." to match the UI (Android specific term).

[rchintsov]

Ok, now it's clear. Thanks.

UPD: fixed.

[forrestguice]

This looks good. 👍 It does pass for a native app, congrats on the great work.

It is very complete, so I tried fixing anything I saw that wasn't translated - a handful of dialogs with untranslated "cancel" buttons. I also fixed those plurals. If you pull this branch they should now be marked TODO.

I'll give some thought to the note area (to avoid scrolling). I also noted that the _summary strings were broken as if they are hardcoded to only display %s. This is something I'll have to fix.

It also seems that the 12-hr format (translated) is broken for older devices. My older phone (api19) displays "до полудня" and "после полудня" (way too long), while the latest emulator displays "AM" and "PM". I'm not sure there's anything I can do to fix it - its just the way DateTimeFormatter chose to format pattern a. I think seeing this will be uncommon though - most Russian speakers will be using 24hr time?

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice

congrats on the great work.

Thanks! And you on expanding your audience!

It does pass for a native app

I imagine nativeness not as fullness of translation, but as nativeness of using the language. Most of translations maked by direct translation of the English words. It looks very rude, I tried to avoid this.
IMHO, user should think, that the app author built the UI followed by nuances of the language (for Russian it's true). If initially it wasn't like that, it's quite difficult to achieve that feel just by translation. I tried to do this and I think I succeeded, so the result looks for me a little bit incredible.

a handful of dialogs with untranslated "cancel" buttons

I didn't pay attention for untranslated "cancel" buttons, but I remember UI theme names with degrees of transparency in brackets, that I couldn't translate. It may be more important for users, since we are already used to seeing buttons in English in other apps.

Thanks for your attention to scrolling and other. I'm waiting for the opportunity to write more precise wordings of twilights.
BTW, this can be done more beautifully by dividing events into continuing (like twilight) and one-time (like noon). Then we can add <string name="until_start">...</string> to handle continuing events separately.

I think seeing this will be uncommon though - most Russian speakers will be using 24hr time?

I can't answer for all Russian speakers, but I've never seen a person using 12hr time together with the Russian interface. So, don't worry about that. Also, we never think about it, just using the default 24h preset for the Russian locale.

P.S.: I just remembered my big surprise when I first encountered 12h time in the school English classes. It was very unusual :)

[forrestguice]

btw, its also possible to translate the F-Droid listing. I've added the required files (fastlane/metadata/android/ru/full_description.txt and short_description.txt). Those 'place' plurals are also available for translation.

We can include those in this pull, or wait for the next patch (most likely ~2 weeks), or the patch after that, etc.
I am going to merge this and tag v0.13.5 tomorrow. After that its usually around a week before it shows up in F-Droid.

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice Ok, I'm in. But I'll do this tomorrow (if I got this right, tomorrow for me and for you - are different things). Anyway, the main point is that we'll be in time.

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice I experimented a bit with the look of the permission list and changed the link to Suntimes Calendars. This is because the F-Droid site handle links to itself in its own way (with <tt> tag). Let's see what happens.

[forrestguice]

I saw that broken link a few days ago and wondered how to fix it. I was unaware of <tt>. Is it documented somewhere?

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice I don't know. I just looked to HTML and saw that the <a> tag divided in two by <tt>.
I think the reason is to highlight package name when a link points to an app in the site.

[rchintsov]

@forrestguice Look: now it's displaying good (screen from F-Droid). It remains to remove <small> tags for better look. Note that I removed = sign before <= next to API. It's unnecessary there.

[forrestguice]

Its looks good. Using the translated description to fine tune this is a good idea. Please experiment more if you'd like, and later I will apply changes to the other files.

I'm in favor of removing HTML formatting. It was an experiment, but it seems to look better without.