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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 1102">Hi. I have already written elsewhere on the forum that weather plugin did not translate cleanly (in French for my part). I have looked at an -weeks old- source file in the weather plugin, and saw places where the author was fed up with localizing stuff... I can understand&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Example of lazyness consequences : &quot;Wind: From WSW at X mp/h&quot; currently translates to &quot;Vent : de WSW à X km/h&quot; (WSW should read OSO)This can be corrected allright. But there is more, thanks to french's twisted grammary. Currently I can read : &quot;AM Averses&quot; for London, and &quot;Dispersé Orages&quot; for Tampa, FL (weather is shitty in Paris as well..) which are supposed to translate somthing like &quot;AM Showers&quot; and &quot;Scattered T-Storms&quot;.Point is, in French I would rather read &quot;Averses AM&quot; and &quot;Orages DisperséS&quot;.I guess many languages will have issues like this, not to mention this guy I read from in the forum who wants to localise MP to chinese or so (RTL languages...). I am under the impression that the weather plugin, lazyness apart, can never fully translate to foreign languages as it is now.I would like to ask your comments on the consequences : should the translators provide plugins and skins ? Is there a way to partially override plugins processing ? Could that be generic ?For your information, there is another issue w/ the french localisation I know of : access to IMDB could/should be replaced w/ access to allocine.com (french internet site) in order to get the same kind of movie info, but written in french... Sorry for the long post. I hope I was clear. Thanks for your responses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 1102"] Hi. I have already written elsewhere on the forum that weather plugin did not translate cleanly (in French for my part). I have looked at an -weeks old- source file in the weather plugin, and saw places where the author was fed up with localizing stuff... I can understand :) Example of lazyness consequences : "Wind: From WSW at X mp/h" currently translates to "Vent : de WSW à X km/h" (WSW should read OSO) This can be corrected allright. But there is more, thanks to french's twisted grammary. Currently I can read : "AM Averses" for London, and "Dispersé Orages" for Tampa, FL (weather is shitty in Paris as well..) which are supposed to translate somthing like "AM Showers" and "Scattered T-Storms". Point is, in French I would rather read "Averses AM" and "Orages DisperséS". I guess many languages will have issues like this, not to mention this guy I read from in the forum who wants to localise MP to chinese or so (RTL languages...). I am under the impression that the weather plugin, lazyness apart, can never fully translate to foreign languages as it is now. I would like to ask your comments on the consequences : should the translators provide plugins and skins ? Is there a way to partially override plugins processing ? Could that be generic ? For your information, there is another issue w/ the french localisation I know of : access to IMDB could/should be replaced w/ access to allocine.com (french internet site) in order to get the same kind of movie info, but written in french... Sorry for the long post. I hope I was clear. Thanks for your responses. [/QUOTE]

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