Re: Russian translation

2014-01-29 Jacob Nevins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Konstantin Vedeneev writes:
>> I finally finished the Russian translation. Here are po-files for S2_3,
>> S2_4 and S2_5 made with svn rev24270 strings.
>
> I'll look at getting these into the upcoming releases. S2_3 and S2_4
> versions at least build with no errors.

> Out of interest, are you in contact any of the previous translators,
> such as Egor Vyscrebentov or Andrej Svininykh? (Although it has been
> three years almost to the day since we last saw a ru.po update from
> Andrej, I think, so I'm not proposing to wait for their comments.)

No, I'm not.

When I first time opened the po-file to write missing strings, I didn't
think about full work, but... Some phrases were inaccurate, some -
grammatically incorrect and there were errors that change the meaning.

Once, maybe two years later, I've desided to complete recast.

Of course, it remains a legacy of previous translators, such as unit and
improvement names, and a number of apposite terms. But all the in-game
strings including civilopedia's articles were translated from scratch.

And all the time there was no movement neither in the Russian maillist nor
here.

But I'd be glad to receive proposals and corrections. Criticism is also
welcome. :)

> I notice that some of the nation legend translations have considerably
> more detail than the English originals. Did you write these all
> yourself? That's more work even than just translating those legends!

Yes, some nation names were puzzled me, I had to find the correspondence
with Russian ones used in our national ethnography, but finding them I also
abtained an encyclopedic article. And it is hard work to cut one-two pages
into one-two paragraphs. :)

Bye.

-- 
Konstantin

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