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Avoiding storing identical strings is a clever measure to keep the appstream file small and clean, but it ignores translation differences between languages and their specific locales. Applications tend to "fallback" from missing locales by picking a translation of the same language but from a different locale. For instance, when missing a "pt_BR" translation, some apps will pick the "pt" translation instead. That usually works but there are some cases when it doesn't, such as for international words: Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) tends to use them, while European Portuguese (pt) has a translation for everything. This way, "GNOME Boxes" gets translated to "Caixas GNOME" in European Portuguese (pt) but the same "GNOME Boxes" name is expected in Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR). This was initially reported as a Flatpak issue in https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2019-May/001578.html Because OP was seeing the wrong translations in Flathub and GNOME Software. Original commit was done by @felipeborges in his personal branch at github, commit 54f97aa
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This is the resume of the work done in PR #307 by @felipeborges. |
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Avoiding storing identical strings is a clever measure to keep the
appstream file small and clean, but it ignores translation differences
between languages and their specific locales.
Applications tend to "fallback" from missing locales by picking a
translation of the same language but from a different locale.
For instance, when missing a "pt_BR" translation, some apps will
pick the "pt" translation instead. That usually works but there
are some cases when it doesn't, such as for international words:
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) tends to use them, while European
Portuguese (pt) has a translation for everything.
This way, "GNOME Boxes" gets translated to "Caixas GNOME" in
European Portuguese (pt) but the same "GNOME Boxes" name is
expected in Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR).
This was initially reported as a Flatpak issue in
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2019-May/001578.html
Because OP was seeing the wrong translations in Flathub and
GNOME Software.
Original commit was done by @felipeborges in his personal branch at
github, commit 54f97aa