Please, add a language selector. Forced translations on the latest version are a bit of a mess.

3 years ago by Cosmic Frog to c/jerboa

I just updated to 0.35 and got a translation forced on me with no option to go back to English. The translations are a bit of a mess in many ways. Literal translations that take no consideration of context, broken layout elements due to longer strings of text...

Don't get me wrong, is great that they are thinking of making it easy for everyone to use the app, I'm just asking to make it optional if possible.

BTW, I don't know if Jerboa devs monitor this community, but I don't use Matrix, so I'm not sure where else to request this.

squirrel 10 points 3 years ago

Jerboa 0.35 added an option in the android settings to change the app language. You can change the language there.

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Cosmic_Frog 7 points 3 years ago

If I'm not mistaken, that's only a feature on Android 13.

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MrNemobody 5 points 3 years ago

That's correct.

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needthosepylons 3 points 3 years ago

I'll be changing my old phone in two weeks but my heart stays with people who, for whatever reason (e.g. : broke), are stuck on older phones capping at Android 9.

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sugar_in_your_tea 5 points 3 years ago

And the next release (0.0.36) will have it in settings as well. Not sure on release date though.

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Barbarian772 3 points 3 years ago

Also the german texts are too long and break the layout.

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sockenklaus 3 points 3 years ago

This has been addressed but there is no solution yet: