F-Droid: Long description for German in wrong language

[sushidave]

Device a:

• Android version: Latest
• Device: n/a
• Language: German (Germany)

Device b:

• Android version: 8.0.0
• Device: SHIFT6m
• Language: German (Switzerland)

Both devices:

• Delta Chat version: 1.46.7
• Expected behavior: Long app description on F-Droid for German appears in German
• Actual behavior: Long app description on F-Droid appears in a) English and b) Italian
• Steps to reproduce the problem: Open F-Droid and check the description on the Delta Chat page

On F-Droid web version, the long description for German appears in English:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.b44t.messenger/index.html

According to Transifex, the translation status for German is 100%:
https://explore.transifex.com/delta-chat/delta-chat-app/

It seems that there are two issues:

1. Translation file from Transifex is not productive.
2. Wrong locale for German (Switzerland).

[adbenitez]

hi @sushidave thanks a lot for reporting!

@r10s this is probably related/similar to #3189

[r10s]

According to Transifex, the translation status for German is 100%:

for f-droid, we experiment with Weblate, therefore, translations are at https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/tree/main/metadata and are done via https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/deltachat/android-metadata/

these f-droid translations are far away from 100%

sorry for this confusion here :)

Actual behavior: Long app description on F-Droid appears in a) English and b) Italian

when i open https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.b44t.messenger/index.html , i see the long description in English - which is expected as a german translation is missing.

for " b) Italian": what do you mean exactly here? can you add a screenshot?

[r10s]

closing as there is no actionable item. please comment or reopen if we've overseen something.

thanks a lot for taking care!

[sushidave]

@r10s
Thanks for your reply and clarification that translations for F-Droid come from Weblate.

for " b) Italian": what do you mean exactly here? can you add a screenshot?

Screenshot for device b set to language German (Switzerland):

The long description is in Italian. Shouldn't it be in English since it's the default language?

[sushidave]

@r10s
Same happens if the language is set to French (Switzerland) or Italian (Switzerland). If set to English the long description is in English.

[r10s]

The long description is in Italian. Shouldn't it be in English since it's the default language?

maybe F-Droids fallback for "German (Switzerland)" is Italian if German is missing?

that would make some sense as Italian is an official language in Switzerland - but English is not ¹

anyways, there is no actionable item here, the metadata look fine so far, and when just completing the german translation, things would be totally unquestionable :)

Footnotes

1. see "Official Languages" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland ↩

[sushidave]

@r10s
Thanks. The German translation has been completed.

[r10s]

great! and thanks as well for taking care of details! 🙏