Problem in translations with :type added, created, updated

[exomarty]

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Steps to reproduce the issue

In spanish article and invoice have different genres so verbs need to be in concordance with that.
using the same translation for the notification :type added :type updated etc makes imposible to set a correct translation for both variables

Expected result

be able to set different translation to each variable

Actual result

if you set correct translation in masculine verb to article it will set masculine to invoice that in spanish is femenine

System information (Akaunting, PHP versions)

cliud Versión 2.0.1

Additional comments

please duplicate variables for different notifications so we can translate it correct

[denisdulici]

Marty, can you please give us some comparative examples in English and Spanish?

[exomarty]

Marty, can you please give us some comparative examples in English and Spanish?

yes. here is the example
on english when you create invoice, article etc you get notification
"Invoice created" or "Article created" and is ok because english doesnt change verbs based on the noun gender.

in spanish invoice is "Factura" and article is "Articulo" and you get
"Articulo creado" "Factura creado"

"Articulo creado" is correct because "articulo" is male gender.
but correct form for "Factura creado" is "Factura creada" because "factura" is female gender
so you cant use the same translation variable for both

[denisdulici]

OK, now I see the problem with gender, applicable for Albanian too 😉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

Tagged the change for 2.1 version.

[Formatado]

Same with Portuguese language.
Not only with :types but with other words too, like new. In english new is ok for everything (payments, invoices, bills etc) but in Portuguese its different, we use novo for male words (payment, vendor, costumer etc) and nova for female (invoice, bill, account etc)

[dadeke]

Same with Portuguese language. Not only with :types but with other words too, like new. In english new is ok for everything (payments, invoices, bills etc) but in Portuguese its different, we use novo for male words (payment, vendor, costumer etc) and nova for female (invoice, bill, account etc)

Maybe that is a possible solution. It creates redundancie words, but it works.

A example here:
dadeke@7396d7e

But I don't know what the impact of that change would be, because that is complex. 🤔

[dadeke]

That other project is a good reference:

English 🇬🇧

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/en-GB/people.php#L481

    'life_event_sentence_new_instrument' => 'Learned a new instrument',

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/en-GB/journal.php#L13

    'journal_add' => 'Add a journal entry',

Spanish 🇪🇸

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/es/people.php#L481

    'life_event_sentence_new_instrument' => 'Aprendió un nuevo instrumento',

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/es/journal.php#L13

    'journal_add' => 'Agregar una entrada de diario',

Portuguese 🇧🇷

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/pt-BR/people.php#L481

    'life_event_sentence_new_instrument' => 'Aprendeu um novo instrumento',

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/resources/lang/pt-BR/journal.php#L13

    'journal_add' => 'Adicionar uma entrada no diário',

But I can't assess what the impact of that change on the others consolidated translations on Crowdin and with addition of more words. 💲📈👀

Maybe a good strategy would be to add a little bit of words every now and then and to do the monitoring. Can I make a little pull request? 🙂

[denisdulici]

Yeah, it will require lots of new language strings, so we've postponed it. Just skip this for now.

[dadeke]

A workaround that allows you to replace some the official translation without editing its core:

https://github.com/dadeke/akaunting-module-custom-translation

It has a bit impact on performance, but can be useful for some use cases. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This will be archived when there is new language strings. 🙂👍🏼