OpenTodo is translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. This week Simplified Chinese (简体中文) joined them. It is new, and nobody who speaks it natively has reviewed it yet.
Japanese and Arabic come after 1.0. Arabic will be the first right-to-left layout, which I’m looking forward to and a little nervous about.
Why I need you
I don’t speak most of these languages. A translation can be correct and still sound like nobody talks that way, or use a word no task app would ever use, or not fit on the button. You notice that in seconds. I never will.
I’m not asking anyone to translate from scratch. Just read what’s there and tell me what feels off.
How to help
Whatever is easiest for you:
- Try it. Open the demo (no sign-up), pick your language in Settings, Language and region, and click around: Today, a task, quick add, Settings.
- Tell me. Leave a comment on the discussion on GitHub with a screenshot or the text and what it should say. “Nobody says X, we say Y” is exactly the kind of note that helps.
- Or edit the file. Every text for a language lives in one file,
web/src/locales/<lang>.jsonin the app repository. Open a pull request, and you’ll be credited in the release notes.
Chinese has the highest priority, but a second pair of eyes on any language is welcome, and if you’d like to review Japanese or Arabic when they arrive, say so on the discussion and I’ll ping you. If your language isn’t on the list, tell me that too.
Even fifteen minutes and the three worst things you spotted make a real difference. Thank you.