update German translation

[tiltX]

This updates a few strings that currently exist in the locale files. It doesn't add translations to the new English strings that have been added or renamed since 2.0.8 was released.

Is there a workflow for those? It seems to me as if the missing strings are generated before each release. Is this an automated process or are you using certain tools/scripts? I'm asking because I'd like to tackle those new strings as well, but it would be a bit of a chore to find all missing keys in the *.de.text files.

[darbyjohnston]

Hi, sorry for the delay and thanks for the translation fixes!

The workflow is not great right now, basically I add the text in English and then periodically run a script which converts the English to other languages using a machine translation service. All of the fixes have been from volunteers like yourself who spot the bad translations and then submit patches. There's an issue for improving the workflow here:
#181

Maybe a small change that could make things easier is if I added an extra field in the JSON files that shows whether a translation has been reviewed or not. That way the new text and machine translations would be easy to spot and fix if necessary. I could also freeze any English text changes a few weeks ahead of a release to give people a chance to make corrections for the other languages.

[tiltX]

I think such a string freeze would be great! I don't know if a field in the json file would be of much use (at least to me, when checking strings) because there's always git's commit history to see if/what has changed.

There's one thing though that I felt made my work more difficult: you have renamed some keys in the json files but intstead of renaming them in each locale the strings have disappeared completely. I can compare English and German files side-by-side to easily see what's missing, but it's harder to find out what the original translation was (or if the missing key is in fact a new string).

long story short: I think it would be great if renamed keys in the English files could also be renamed in the locales.

[darbyjohnston]

Hi sorry about the deleted keys, I'll be more careful about that in the future. Whenever I changed a key or translation I was in the habit of deleting them from the other language files, but if just the key changes that's not necessary and I can rename them instead of deleting them. If the text changes it seems like they should be deleted, otherwise the translated text could be totally different from the English.

I can also start using the GitHub "Discussions" feature to announce new releases and string freezes.