Hebrew translation

[Liviu Lalescu]

About Qt Linguist and right-to-left languages:

The words in Qt Linguist appear in reversed order.

I talked with the Arabic translator. He has Ubuntu 10.04, Arabic layout
operating system, no Arabic locale, and he has the same problems: the words are in reversed order.

The bug is listed on Qt task tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-4098

So, there is no solution to the problem, you must use older Linguist 3 and wait for a Qt bug fix.

There is Linguist, version 4.7.0 beta 2, currently available, it may have the
bug fix, though I doubt.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Yotam, please let me know if the Hebrew translation in the current snapshot ( http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download/test/ ) is looking good, so that I can release a new official version of FET today. I need your answer as soon as possible.

[yotam]

I will try the current snapshot tonight, when I am back home from my day-job.

[Liviu Lalescu]

I will try the current snapshot tonight, when I am back home from my day-job.

OK then, I may postpone for tomorrow the release, because I want to ensure that Hebrew is displayed correctly. No problem, sorry for being too pushing.

[yotam]

Liviu wrote me:

OK then, please tell me, after compiling:

1) Hebrew works OK, words are correct.

2) Help/About translators and TRANSLATORS file contains good info about Hebrew
translator.

3) Menus timetable->show soft conflicts and data->all space constraints are
looking good, with accelerators for them functioning OK (just press
Alt+underlined letter).

Hebrew looks OK, words are correct but not the best possible, as I am not used to Hebrew GUI terminology conventions.

Credit for Hebrew translation is accurate.

The accelerators mentioned in (3) work fine.
I am not happy with the term I picked for soft-conflict and the letter chosen for accelerator is not significant. But it may be good for first release.

Hebrew is gender sensitive. As I translated -
‎Help = עזרה is Female
Online = מקוּוַן is Male.
So:  Help->Online
does not sound right. I should have used "Online" in female form.
Since these two words do not appear as one unit, but rather one below the other, it is less embarrassing.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Well, please tell me the correct translation for Help->Online into Hebrew and I'll change it, it is very easy for me.

Also, tell me preferred accelerators, if you have better ones (careful not to make duplicates).

[yotam]

About to rush to my day-job office.

online-"femalization":
Please change
  מקוּוַן
into:
  מקוּוֶנֶת

Regarding an accelerator letter for :
  חִכוּכים
I actually do not see a better letter that does not collide
with other item on the samne sub-menu. So your choice is OK. By the way, underline under Hebrew letters is a little confusing - because it looks like a diacritic mark (vowel).

[Liviu Lalescu]

OK, change is done, new version is released :-)

Thank you for your work!

[hila]

hi there -
I try to work with the hebrew translation and I have some first remarks:
1. thanks.
2. because hebrew is written from right to left there are some windows that open with the e-relevant information, i.e. straighten to the wrong = left direction. where did I saw it?  at TIME   TEACHER   TEACHER'S NOT AVAILABLE TIME   in the window of teacher's constaints.
I already saw it doesnt happen everywhere (when adding or modifying activities the window do straighten to the right direction).
3. Yotam - we will need to talk about some of the translations...
4. I guess an unexpected problem will be user's vocabulary. for me, as a new user that is not acquainted with computers, it was much easier to explain and understand the forum thanks to the labels in english. once I dont understand what 'generate' 'constraints' and 'time slot' mean the use of FET might be very frustrating.
thanks again, hila

[Liviu Lalescu]

Answer to 2. : yes, unfortunately some list boxes are left aligned. They are old Qt 3 forms, Q3ListBox, which I was too lazy to update to Qt 4. Qt 3 did not care about right-to-left languages in list boxes.

I updated activities list and other lists to QListWidget (list box of Qt 4), because I considered them more important. That is why they look good even in right-to-left languages.