Translating ABP for Maxthon

[jobp]

Background

After the string-freeze, Adblock Plus for Maxthon needs to be translated into all relevant languages.

Solution

• Maxthon created a project on Crowdin: ​https://crowdin.com/project/adblock-plus
• Our strings can be imported and parsed into the format required by Maxthon

[Dev CZ]

ABP is already translated to 22 languages in Maxthon for PC project: ​https://crowdin.com/project/maxthon-for-pc-translation
We got texts to translate more than one month ago...

[jobp]

ABP provided Maxthon the Translation Memory, so they can start parsing the strings into the format Maxthon is using.

[jobp]

Some parsing issues, looks like we found a solution as outlined by Andriy (Crowdin' employee)

Hi all,

The reason why most of strings were not automatically translated while running pre-translate is that original AdBlock Plus project (​https://crowdin.com/project/adblockplus) has English, US source language but Maxthon's AdBlock Plus project has English source language. There are 2 solutions:

1) Maxthon should re-create the project with English, US as the source language;

2) Some modifications are needed in the TM files Job attached recently ("en-US" nodes should be replaced by "en"). In order to help you, I have already prepared TM files that will work in your current project, please see the attachments. Before uploading them in the project I suggest you to clear current project's TM. Kindly follow this link (you should be logged in as user "Maxthon"):
​https://crowdin.com/resources#translation-memory

Click the "Clear TM" button situated across "AdBlock Plus" TM. Afterwards, upload attached files in the project TM. Run pre-translate, everything should work fine.

Please download TM files here:
​https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pvmfUGE93AQlJuZzVPbTFQU2c/view?usp=sharing

Hope you will be able to generate correct INI files the nearest time.

[Dev CZ]

We spend lot of time to translate it and now you do not want our translations from: ​https://crowdin.com/project/maxthon-for-pc-translation
That pissed me off! I do not have a decent words...

[jobp]

@Dev CZ:
Our apologies for this, there has been a bit of miscommunication between us and Maxthon regarding the strings and which Crowdin' project to use. Eventually we decided to use separate Crowdin' projects because translating ABP is a challenge, and we would like to have our translators being able to approve the suggestions without having to go through thousands of strings.

Again, I apologize for this, and completely understand that this pissed you off.

[jobp]

Two Crowdin' projects have been setup:

Desktop: ​https://crowdin.com/project/adblock-plus
Android: ​https://crowdin.com/project/adblock-plus-maxthon-android-i

NL, DE, CN-ZH, CH-TW, ES, RU have all been translated. Over the following days we'll work on involving ABP translators to support other languages.