Italian Installer 53.1

[samo79]

A very minor issue on the italian translation of the installer 53.1

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Lecta please fix !

[samo79]

Problem still also in version 53.9 included in AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1 FE, please fix it

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[tonyw]

The Italian language files were last updated and released to betatesters on 28-May-2016 (V53.3). Hopefully your problem was addressed in that release.

I don't speak Italian, so please explain the problem to me and I'll check the catalog for you.

[samo79]

It's not a translation error in the italian language. just when the translator localize the installer, he probably missed to add another ";" char or somethiing similar ... if you see the grab you can see that above there are the 3 rows containing the translation, but below the same original (english) 3 rows remained ..
Really, fix it it's a 1 minute job ...

That are the only lines that should be show in italian:

Copyright (C) 1990-2009
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA
Tutti i diritti sono riservati.

That one instead, the original english text need to be hide ..

Copyright (C) 1990-2009
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA
All Rights Reserved.

Translator can do it just by adding a simple ";" before the original (english) lines, so the strings will be mantained as a reference in the translation (ct file), but users will not see that when they use the final catalog

[tonyw]

OK, found it. Yes, it has been fixed (there are semi-colons in front of the English lines).

[samo79]

OK, found it. Yes, it has been fixed (there are semi-colons in front of the English lines).

English text should NOT be visible in italian catalog ...
Can you provide a grab ?

[nbache]

OK, found it. Yes, it has been fixed (there are semi-colons in front of the English lines).

English text should NOT be visible in italian catalog ...
Can you provide a grab ?

What Tony means is (I believe) that there are now semicolons in front of the English text in the .ct file, so it is now correctly treated as a comment and not compiled onto the .catalog. Thus you don't see it in the running program any more, only the Italian text.

Best regards,

Niels

[tonyw]

Like other languages, the Italian catalogs contain, for each string:
(1) The string name in English;
(2) The Italian translation;
(3) The original English text.
(Every string in the file is structured this way)

In this case:

MSG_ABOUT_INSTALLER2
\nCopyright (C) 1990-2009\
\nHyperion Entertainment CVBA\n\
Tutti i diritti sono riservati.\n\
; \nCopyright (C) 1990-2009\
; \nHyperion Entertainment CVBA\n\
; All Rights Reserved.
; \nCopyright (C) 1990-2009\
; \nHyperion Entertainment CVBA\n\
; All Rights Reserved.

There are two copies of the English version (the three lines). I guess that originally, one of the two copies had no semi-colons in front and thus they also appeared in the .catalog. But now both English copies (all six lines) have semi-colons, so that only the Italian strings are generated.

I am not going to edit the file to delete the duplicated three lines. Also, the copyright string should be generated in real time so that it is up to date, but that's up to the programmer.

[samo79]

Yep, apparently everything seems correct

You know sometimes (atleast using FlexCat) there is a problem in case a semi-colon will be typed after a line break \n

For example two lines like that:

Tutti i diritti sono riservati.\n\
; \nCopyright (C) 1990-2009

Should only produce the first italian line in the generated catalog

However sometimes happens that both raws will be visible instead .. probably there is a little issue in Flexcat or don't know what
I don't know if this specific "issue" was caused by that, but it's possible

I agree about the date, a variable for the generated year could be better rather than "force" everytime the translators to update their program's date string manually ... perhaps you may open a ticket for this ?

Aniway thanks for the time you dedicate on

@nbache
Yep !

[tonyw]

A back-slash is an escape character and is paired with the next character, whatever that is.

In the example above, the first back-slash escapes the "n". The second escapes the ";" on the next line, which is not a known control character, so is ignored.
The next character in the text stream is the third back-slash followed by the second "n", so the semi-colon commenting out the following line is lost.