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MC-36718

New fragmented sentences in translation

The latest additions to the translation strings include descriptions for various settings but many of these are broken into two fragments. I’m guessing this has been done where you want the text to wrap.

Can we please, please, please NOT DO THIS?

Not only is this a crude way of achieving layout, but it makes translating (and maintaining translations) unnecessarily complicated. These strings also don't even appear in the game yet, so there is also no way for translators to test their guesses at line wrapping.

Affected strings:

options.graphicsDesc0
options.graphicsDesc1
options.renderDistanceDesc0
options.renderDistanceDesc1
options.particlesDesc0
options.particlesDesc1
options.advancedOpenglDesc0
options.advancedOpenglDesc1
options.fboEnableDesc0
options.fboEnableDesc1
options.postProcessEnableDesc0
options.postProcessEnableDesc1

Comments 6

Many "translators" also don't look neither at the context nor at remarks in the discussion tab and translate the two parts independantly.

Proposal: Introduce \n or similar and split the single translated string by software.

title.oldgl1
title.oldgl2

Still a concern in 14w08a.

The lines in question ended up going unused and have now been removed. Thanks, by the way, for presenting your concern in a TOTALLY civil and not at all childish way!

There are still some fragmented sentences left:

createWorld.customize.custom.confirm1
createWorld.customize.custom.confirm2
selectWorld.gameMode.survival.line1
selectWorld.gameMode.survival.line2
selectWorld.gameMode.creative.line1
selectWorld.gameMode.creative.line2
selectWorld.gameMode.spectator.line1
selectWorld.gameMode.spectator.line2
selectWorld.gameMode.hardcore.line1
selectWorld.gameMode.hardcore.line2
selectWorld.gameMode.adventure.line1
selectWorld.gameMode.adventure.line2
multiplayer.info1
multiplayer.info2
multiplayer.texturePrompt.line1
multiplayer.texturePrompt.line2
options.farWarning1
options.farWarning2
title.oldgl1
title.oldgl2
mco.terms.sentence.1
mco.terms.sentence.2

Seán Ó Séaghdha

migrated

Confirmed

translation

Minecraft 1.7, Minecraft 1.7.1, Minecraft 1.7.2, Minecraft 1.7.3, Minecraft 1.7.4, Minecraft 14w08a, Minecraft 1.7.5

Minecraft 14w28a

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