Kiwix-android: Explain the message Android.ui.search history

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@amire80 commented on Jan 19, 2020, 8:12 AM UTC:

The translatable message Android.ui.search history says "Search history" in English. It's not documented. In English, "Search history" can mean both "history of search queries" and "search in the history of previously visited pages". To translate correctly, this needs to be documented.

If you look at the list of current translations at https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&message=Kiwix%3AAndroid.ui.search+history , you'll see that translators to different languages understood it differently. For example, in French it's "Rechercher dans l’historique" and in Esperanto it's "Serĉi historion", which means "search in history", while in Spanish it's "Historial de búsquedas" and in Polish it's "Historia wyszukiwania", which is "history of searches".

Please document this message. (And all the rest, while you're at it, but this one is particularly ambiguous.)

You can do it most easily by editing the wiki page https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Kiwix:Android.ui.search_history/qqq .

Thanks!

This issue was moved by kelson42 from kiwix/overview#31.

[kelson42]

@amire80 Thank you for keeping pushing il8n at Kiwix. These last few years we have been a bit distracted by other stuff. To a large extend we are over with this. Therefore I think this is the right time to fixe our weaknesses regarding il8n with the help of Translatewiki. In the past we had only one translation file for many of our softwares in a dedicated repo which was synced by TW and then synced by us with the proper software dedicated translation files. Following advice of @Nikerabbit we have abandoned this approach and goal is now that TW syncs directly each of or repo translation files. First candidate is Kiwix-Android (this repo) but we are quite stuck and needs support for PR #1590, maybe you would be able to help there?

[amire80]

I can try helping there. Till then, can you just document this one message? :)

[macgills]

@amire80 it is "search in the history of previously visited pages", editing now

[macgills]

@amire80 I do not have login credentials to make the edit

[amire80]

Thanks! I edited it.

You can create an account, and I'll give you the permissions to edit.

[macgills]

@amire80 I have created an account with username macgills

[amire80]

Thank you. I gave you the permission to edit.

This issue can be marked as resolved.

I can't promise much, but I'll see what I can do about #1590.