French Localization Bugs

Wednesday November 9th, 2005
The objective of this page is to provide detailed feedback on the various Valve applications which are localized into French.
Please make sure to follow the Bug Template when logging or updating the bugs.

View changelog for the November 9, 2005 update. 04:06, 9 Nov 2005 (PST)

Friday November 11th, 2005
Some new bugs introduced by the Nov 10, 2005 Steam build and they are marked in the new entries by bug introduced in the Nov 10, 2005 build.
Already logged Oct 27, 2005 bugs which remain in the Nov 10, 2005 build are not updated. All bugs common to both builds use screenshots from either of the builds.

Steam Localization Bugs

Steam Windows client — Oct 27, 2005 and Nov 10, 2005 builds

The information below originate in the linguistic and cosmetic QA performed on the localized French version of the Steam Windows client — Oct 27, 2005 and Nov 10, 2005 builds. More screens and bug descriptions will be posted as they become available. Please follow the Bug Template if you want to add your feedback. — Pb75 ^{(Talk | ›)}

Steam Backup Wizard

Bug 1.1.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR backup 001.jpg and Image:Steam FR backup 002.jpg
• Bug type: Translation - English text in localized application
• Bug description: the units are still in English. See the units correctly translated in Image:Steam FR backup :005.jpg
• Incorrect text: MB
• Correct text: Mo
• Fix:

• Update all disk space related text labels (list below) with localization tokens and insert the text label and the correct text in steambackup\steambackup_<french>.txt .

• in BackupSelectGamesPage.res: SpaceRequiredLabel
• in BackupSelectDirectoryPage.res: SpaceRequiredLabel and SpaceAvailableLabel

• Potential issues: check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Bug 1.2.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR backup 003.jpg and Image:Steam FR backup 007.jpg
• Bug type: Layout - clipped string
• Bug description: the buttons are too narrow to accomodate the strings
• Incorrect text: n/a
• Correct text: n/a
• Fix: increase button width in the relevant Backup...res files under \cached\ , and, if necessary, move around the buttons in the dialog.
• Potential issues: check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Bug 1.3.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR backup 004.jpg
• Bug type: Translation - inconsistency and mistranslation
• Bug description: backup should be consistently translated as sauvegarde and not as archive
• Incorrect text: Nom de l'archive
• Correct text: Nom du fichier de sauvegarde
• Fix: update the translation of Steam_BackupFileName in BackupSelectOptionsPage.res
• Potential issues: check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Bug 1.4.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR backup 006.jpg
• Bug type: Translation - inconsistency and mistranslation
• Bug description:

• backup should be consistently translated as sauvegarde and not as archive
• save should be consistently translated as enregistrer and not as sauvegarder

• Incorrect text: Veuillez patienter pendant la compression et la sauvegarde des fichiers d'archive...
• Correct text: Veuillez patienter pendant la compression et l'enregistrement des fichiers de sauvegarde…
• Fix: update the translation of text labels in BackupCopyFilesPage.res
• Potential issues: check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Steam Bandwidth Monitor

Bug 2.1.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR monitor 001.jpg
• Bug type: Translation - English text in localized application
• Bug description: The units are still in English.
• Incorrect text: bytes
• Correct text: octets
• Fix:

• Update CurrentRateLabel, PeakRateLabel and TotalDownloadedLabel in BandWidthUsageDialog.res with localization tokens
• Insert the text label and the correct text in the relevant translation table.

• Potential issues: Check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Bug 2.2.fr

• Screen(s): Image:Steam FR monitor 001.jpg
• Bug type: Layout - clipped/overlapping strings
• Bug description:

• The text fields are too narrow to accomodate the strings
• The east and west text fields are too close

• Incorrect text: n/a
• Correct text: n/a
• Fix:

• Increase text field width for label1, label2, label3 in BandwidthUsageDialog.res
• Move east CurrentRateLabel, PeakRateLabel, and TotalDownloadedLabel

• Potential issues: Check string clipping after the update
• Status: outstanding
• Queries:

Steam Settings

Bug 3.1.fr

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