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Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
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4 years 8 months ago - 4 years 8 months ago #187760
by ddiesenreither
Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages? was created by ddiesenreither
Hello community,
is there a way to add 'English' twice to a survey? My customer wants to support 'English GB' and 'English US' due to some communication reasons.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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I use Version 3.5.3+180316.
is there a way to add 'English' twice to a survey? My customer wants to support 'English GB' and 'English US' due to some communication reasons.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Daniel
Edit:
I use Version 3.5.3+180316.
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4 years 8 months ago - 4 years 8 months ago #187763
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The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
Replied by jelo on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
That level of locals is not implemented. Open a feature request.
translate.limesurvey.org/projects/limesurvey-3/
BTW The 1% translation status for English is wrong. Seems to be messed up with the upcoming LS 4.
The first step would be to be able to add the same language twice or more to a survey.
This feature would already help, since most the time you have English and certain local differences which you need to change in the survey textboxes or regional settings (e.g. date, numbers). The LimeSurvey instructions mostly are not the issue.
My feature request from 2017:
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=12148
translate.limesurvey.org/projects/limesurvey-3/
BTW The 1% translation status for English is wrong. Seems to be messed up with the upcoming LS 4.
The first step would be to be able to add the same language twice or more to a survey.
This feature would already help, since most the time you have English and certain local differences which you need to change in the survey textboxes or regional settings (e.g. date, numbers). The LimeSurvey instructions mostly are not the issue.
My feature request from 2017:
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=12148
The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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4 years 8 months ago #187764
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Cheers,
Tony Partner
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Replied by tpartner on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
In the meantime, you can create your own copy of EN -
manual.limesurvey.org/Translating_LimeSu...ng_a_new_translation
Cheers,
Tony Partner
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4 years 8 months ago #187765
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Replied by DenisChenu on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
We already have pt and pt-BR,
We can have en + en-US + en-GB but this need someone to manage and update it …
I ask to some French Canadian and French Belgium if need fr-CA and fr-BE, but we don't really need it if it's outdated at each update …
We can have en + en-US + en-GB but this need someone to manage and update it …
I ask to some French Canadian and French Belgium if need fr-CA and fr-BE, but we don't really need it if it's outdated at each update …
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4 years 8 months ago #187809
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Replied by holch on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
I agree with Denis, there are a couple of examples for where we already have more than one language (Portuguese from Portugal and Brazil, German formal and informal, various versions of Spanish, 3 different versions of Chinese, Czech formal/informal, Dutch formal/informal etc.).
But it always depends on the capacity of administration, keeping it up to date, translate new strings, etc. and here I see some problems. There is for example no one responsible for the Portuguese from Portugal. This means, new translations do not get approved. So for English GB, English US (and then eventually English AU, English NZ, English CA, etc.) we would always someone who is helping to keep things up to date. Every additional language is additional work, even if it is basically just a copy of the original English with some adaptions.
Ideally, as Jelo says, you would be able to add more than one Language version of the questionnaire. Because I agree, the problem are usually not the pre-existing strings from Limesurvey, but rather you want to adapt the text of the questionnaire for a certain country.
But it always depends on the capacity of administration, keeping it up to date, translate new strings, etc. and here I see some problems. There is for example no one responsible for the Portuguese from Portugal. This means, new translations do not get approved. So for English GB, English US (and then eventually English AU, English NZ, English CA, etc.) we would always someone who is helping to keep things up to date. Every additional language is additional work, even if it is basically just a copy of the original English with some adaptions.
Ideally, as Jelo says, you would be able to add more than one Language version of the questionnaire. Because I agree, the problem are usually not the pre-existing strings from Limesurvey, but rather you want to adapt the text of the questionnaire for a certain country.
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4 years 8 months ago - 4 years 8 months ago #187820
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Replied by ddiesenreither on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
Thank you for your answers. I completely understand the overhead of maintaining this additional languages.
As you mentioned, the problem is not the missing 'translation' of LimeSurvey, it is more about added a language multiple times. A nice feature would be the possibility to add a language, set the fallback language of this so the customer can add the questions for the added language and the system takes the related strings from the fallback if there is no own translation of this string.
As you mentioned, the problem is not the missing 'translation' of LimeSurvey, it is more about added a language multiple times. A nice feature would be the possibility to add a language, set the fallback language of this so the customer can add the questions for the added language and the system takes the related strings from the fallback if there is no own translation of this string.
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4 years 8 months ago #187828
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Replied by DenisChenu on topic Add 'English GB' and 'English US' as additional languages?
Related feature request :
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=14782
But then : need a "extend language system …"
But then : need a "extend language system …"
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