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Translations Feedback Thread

We've just published translations to the web app section of the game. This does not yet include the live race viewer, although we hope to release the translated viewer before the app launch on the 22nd. You can configure your language on the Settings Page.

Please give your feedback on the translations here. They are by no means perfect as they have had only one or two reviews until now. We are relying on you guys to give us the final verdict on their accuracy. The more we can refine them before the app launch the better.

We opted in the end to use professionals rather than volunteers for the initial translation. There were over 13,000 words to translate and it was not a quick or easy job. Better to ask you guys for honest, critical feedback on the professional translations, because I know we will get that quickly! :)

Feedback instructions

1) Provide a precise description/screenshot/link, showing the location of an issue with a translation
2) Name the language of the translation
3) Specify exactly which word(s) or phrase(s) need revisions and provide the correct translation in full
4) Explain why this revision is required and what was wrong with the original

More translations will be added, including Polish, in the weeks ahead. We are only a small team, and it's a lot of work to add something on this scale. We had to prioritise our largest audiences for the first batch of languages, but as I said more will be added soon. Polish is on the list for the next set of languages.

For the translations which have "more issues than you can count", we can easily arrange to give an individual access to all the files so they can make corrections. The feedback is not surprising to me, because I know a lot of the translators have no background in racing, and will have guessed at a lot of the words. The grammatical errors are a bit more disappointing, but we can work on that now with you guys.

Who volunteers to improve the Spanish translations? I can give you access to a pack of files which you can edit and improve. But I would rather work with only one individual at a time than publishing it to the public, otherwise it will get messy and impossible to manage all the edits.

Nicolas, we can talk about updating the pt-br translation. Please PM me your email address and I will be in touch.

@Frank - your suggestion is fixed now, thanks.


Does anyone else agree with Marco's suggestion?

Nicolas also has the pt-BR files now, and will be revising those translations.

@I B - That was always going to be the case in some translations. In the short-term I don't think we have any solution for that, except what you see, to concatenate (...) the words to stop the GUI from being stretched all over the place into unusual configurations. As long as it is clear what they are referring to, this should suffice for now.

Thanks Rick, great feedback. I've just uploaded fixes for all of those issues in the German translation.

Andrew, unfortuantely those images deny permission for anyone who is not a member of that forum I guess. They are not showing for me and I can't open the URLs directly either, it says Permission Denied. I'd recommend uploading the images to https://postimage.io/ then updating the links.

Thanks for the feedback. The rest I don't understand, but I understood right away that you'd changed "fuel economy" and "tyre ecnomy" to "consumption". Calling it "consumo" is misleading, because "high consumption" implies the opposite of economy.

The rest of the suggestions look reasonable, based on the very little (i.e. none :D) Italian I can understand.