Language definitions¶
To present different translations properly, info about language name, text direction, plural definitions and language code is needed.
Parsing language codes¶
While parsing translations, Weblate attempts to map language code (usually the ISO 639-1 one) to any existing language object.
You can further adjust this mapping at project level by Aliasuri lingvistice.
If no exact match can be found, an attempt will be made to best fit it into an existing language. Following steps are tried:
Case insensitive lookups.
Normalizing underscores and dashes.
Looking up built-in language aliases.
Looking up by language name.
Ignoring the default country code for a given language—choosing
cs
instead ofcs_CZ
.
Should that also fail, a new language definition will be created using the
defaults (left to right text direction, one plural). The automatically created
language with code xx_XX
will be named as xx_XX (generated).
You might want to change this in the admin interface later, (see
Changing language definitions) and report it to the issue tracker (see
Contributing to Weblate), so that the proper definition can be added to the
upcoming Weblate release.
Sugestie
In case you see something unwanted as a language, you might want to adjust Filtru lingvistic to ignore such file when parsing translations.
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Changing language definitions¶
You can change language definitions in the languages interface
(/languages/
URL).
While editing, make sure all fields are correct (especially plurals and text direction), otherwise translators will be unable to properly edit those translations.
Built-in language definitions¶
Definitions for about 600 languages are included in Weblate and the list is extended in every release. Whenever Weblate is upgraded (more specifically whenever weblate migrate is executed, see Generic upgrade instructions) the database of languages is updated to include all language definitions shipped in Weblate.
This feature can be disable using UPDATE_LANGUAGES
. You can also
enforce updating the database to match Weblate built-in data using
setuplang
.
Ambiguous language codes and macrolanguages¶
In many cases it is not a good idea to use macro language code for a translation. The typical problematic case might be Kurdish language, which might be written in Arabic or Latin script, depending on actual variant. To get correct behavior in Weblate, it is recommended to use individual language codes only and avoid macro languages.
Language definitions¶
Each language consists of following fields:
Codul limbii¶
Code identifying the language. Weblate prefers two letter codes as defined by ISO 639-1, but uses ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3 codes for languages that do not have two letter code. It can also support extended codes as defined by BCP 47.
Numele limbii¶
Visible name of the language. The language names included in Weblate are also being localized depending on user interface language.
Direcția textului¶
Determines whether language is written right to left or left to right. This property is autodetected correctly for most of the languages.
Plural number¶
Number of plurals used in the language.
Formula plurală¶
Gettext compatible plural formula used to determine which plural form is used for given count.
Adding new translations¶
Schimbat în versiunea 2.18: In versions prior to 2.18 the behaviour of adding new translations was file format specific.
Weblate can automatically start new translation for all of the file formats.
Some formats expect to start with an empty file and only translated strings to be included (for example Android string resources), while others expect to have all keys present (for example GNU gettext). In some situations this really doesn’t depend on the format, but rather on the framework you use to handle the translation (for example with JSON files).
When you specify Șablon pentru traduceri noi in Component configuration, Weblate will use this file to start new translations. Any exiting translations will be removed from the file when doing so.
When Șablon pentru traduceri noi is empty and the file format supports it, an empty file is created where new strings will be added once they are translated.
The Stil de cod lingvistic allows you to customize language code used in generated filenames:
- Implicit, în funcție de formatul fișierului
Dependent on file format, for most of them POSIX is used.
- Stil POSIX care utilizează sublinierea ca separator
Typically used by gettext and related tools, produces language codes like
pt_BR
.- Stil POSIX care utilizează sublinierea ca separator, inclusiv codul de țară
POSIX style language code including the country code even when not necessary (for example
cs_CZ
).- Stilul BCP care utilizează cratima ca separator
Typically used on web platforms, produces language codes like
pt-BR
.- Stil BCP care utilizează cratima ca separator, inclusiv codul de țară
BCP style language code including the country code even when not necessary (for example
cs-CZ
).- Stil Android
Only used in Android apps, produces language codes like
pt-rBR
.- stil Java
Used by Java—mostly BCP with legacy codes for Chinese.
Additionally, any mappings defined in Aliasuri lingvistice are applied in reverse.
Notă
Weblate recognizes any of these when parsing translation files, the above settings only influences how new files are created.
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