Interested in Adding Bulgarian Translation

[ayovev]

Hey guys, I'm interested in adding a new translation for the Bulgarian language into Artisan. I skimmed through the repo to see if there were any existing guides on best practices or previous translations that others have done but came up short. I can't promise a timeline but would like to chip away at it little by little in my spare time and contribute to the great community that you all have built here. Any tips or guidance on where to start?

cc @MAKOMO

[MAKOMO]

Dear Alex,

thanks for your initiative! I added support for the Bulgarian language to Artisan. I asked GoogleTranslate to provide initial translations to get you started faster. Usually those GoogleTranslations contain funny phrases for roasting specific terms. Those needs to be "improved".

The translations are part of the current Continuous Builds. Note however, that those builds are not signed nor notarized by Apple thus the macOS build (Intel-only) might not even start. If needed, I can provide you with notarized macOS builds.

I wrote up an initial HowTo providing some information that hopefully get you started.

Please let us know if you run into any road blocks and we will guide you around.

Marko

[MAKOMO]

@ayovev Alex, how is it going?

[ayovev]

@MAKOMO Hey Marko, sorry for the delay here; I got caught up with things at work over the past week and have only been able to chip away at it a little at a time. There sure are a lot of phrases here, but at first glance it's a decently accurate list of translations. I'm going to open up a PR here in the coming days for some corrections, as most of the terms are "correct" in the sense that they do linguistically/grammatically translate to the word in the file, but contextually are misleading or confusing.

[MAKOMO]

Excellent! Thanks for your contributions on this.

Yes GoogleTranslate has not much context on translating those phrases. For German it translates "roast" to "Braten" (the translation of "fry") instead of "Röstung". Well...

[ayovev]

@MAKOMO Here's a first pass PR of ~100 translation improvements when you have a chance to review it. I decided to break up this effort into a few passes, so that 1) the PRs are smaller and more manageable to review, and 2) we take care of the higher-priority, more confusing translations first.

Let me know if there's anything else needed on my end to build and deploy the changes; otherwise, I'll just keep chipping away at that file with a couple more small PRs.

[MAKOMO]

I made a new test build including your revised translations

v4.0.3-beta5