GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769843
Some French menu items appear in a different language as the translations are marked as fuzzy, and appear as English (expected) or Greek (unexpected)
Last modified: 2016-10-08 09:07:17 UTC
Created attachment 333229 [details] About Gimp menu showing in Greek With Gimp 2.8.18 in French (Mac OSX), A number of menu items (but not all) appears in Greek. For example, "About Gimp" should show as "À propos de Gimp", but instead shows as "Περι Gimp". There are a number of others like that. Some dialogs entirely appear in Greek.
Hi, Where did you download your GIMP from? gimp.org? I can't see how this would happen. GIMP is 100% translated in French (and "About GIMP" is translated as "À propos de GIMP", no mistake here). And if it weren't, it should fallback to English. So you get a weird one. Do you have a OS in Greek by any chance? (not that it would explain the issue to me right now)
I use OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) in French Canadian. The symptom is very weird indeed as the menu items are a mix of French and Greek. For example, all items under Fichier top menu show in French, except Export and Export as... which show in Greek. And, yes, I downloaded from gimp.org.
Export and Export as are marked as fuzzy in the French translation for 2.8 - so this translation is currently incomplete: https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gimp/gimp-2-8/po/fr Falling back to Greek instead of English is uncommon, but maybe you have one of the language-related locale env vars set up like this.
Basically the same happens on a Windows platform, although the fallback there is the expected English texts - this confirms that the translations are fuzzy. Let's handle the general translations fuzziness first, and care about the replacement by Greek instead of English later.
The French translation of the gimp-2-8 branch has been updated, this fix will be in 2.8.20. For the general issue about translations on the OS X platform at the moment, see bug 770708. From 1d572540849a833ac5cfeafa61c8b32467f04296 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:45:59 +0200 Subject: Updated French translation --- po/fr.po | 2603 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 1395 insertions(+), 1208 deletions(-)