Please make Snap! available in Sinhala

[niki650]

I’m a Sri Lankan person who uses Snap!
When I was using Snap, I was looking for a way to switch the language of the Snap community site, but it turns out it doesn’t support Sinhala.
I know the developers are working on Snap! v12. Hopefully, they might add the language to Snap! v12.

Forum inspiration:

Please make Snap! available in Japanese!

I was originally using Scratch, but decided to give Snap! a try. However, the community site is not in Japanese, which is a bit inconvenient. Similarly, some parts of the program editor are not in Japanese either. Are there any plans to make it available in Japanese? Also, I would like to help translate it into Japanese if possible. (About me) I am active on Scratch as an aalaalscratcher. I am Japanese, but can speak a little English. The texts here are translated using Google Translate. …

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If you want to know about the Sinhala language:

Sinhala language

bye!

[sathvikrias]

I think you could technically make it yourself, unless you know some other sinhala speakers who are willing to translate snap.

[niki650]

okay but how?

[bh]

In the Github repo, find the translation folder, look at the English (US) file, look at the German one for a pretty-much-always-up-to-date translation, and then make the Sinhala one following the same pattern. Basically the Nth line in each file is that language’s version of the same text. Make a branch for your translation and then file a pull request.

If you’re not into Github, ummm, find someone who is, I guess.

[niki650]

I have a GitHub account. If you want, please send me the link.

[d016]

All the translations are in https://github.com/jmoenig/Snap/tree/master/locale, look for the lang-de.js file for the german translation

[niki650]

thanks.

[niki650]

This is part two of this forum :

Please make Snap! available in Sinhala

I’m a Sri Lankan person who uses Snap! When I was using Snap, I was looking for a way to switch the language of the Snap community site, but it turns out it doesn’t support Sinhala. I know the developers are working on Snap! v12. Hopefully, they might add the language to Snap! v12. Forum inspiration: If you want to know about the Sinhala language: bye!

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So, I’m currently making sinhala translations to Snap! using VS Code and Google Translate.

Credit to @bh, who suggested that I should download the file and edit it:

Please make Snap! available in Sinhala

In the Github repo, find the translation folder, look at the English (US) file, look at the German one for a pretty-much-always-up-to-date translation, and then make the Sinhala one following the same pattern. Basically the Nth line in each file is that language’s version of the same text. Make a branch for your translation and then file a pull request. If you’re not into Github, ummm, find someone who is, I guess.

Click this lol

I am still making the translation file, I might finish it soon

[sathvikrias]

@niki650

Google Translate.

I believe the devs specifically do not want google translate to be used/other translating platforms.

[bh]

We want the translations to be done by a native speaker of the language. If such a native speaker were to use Google Translate as a first pass and then carefully examine every line of the resulting file, fixing any awkwardnesses, I don’t suppose we’d ever know. :~) But we don’t want anyone to turn in the output of Translate unedited! Or even partly edited. :~)

[sathvikrias]

I understand! Thanks for the great explanation.

[niki650]

I did lol