Commit Graph
1 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
jcoffey-dev e9009f7aaf Dutch, third of Phase 1
781 of 796 strings; the fifteen left are product names, bare URLs and example
addresses. Generated by AI, unreviewed, marked Beta, with the report link doing
the job a native speaker would.

Register is "u", following "Sie" and "vous". This is the one of the three most
likely to be overturned, and the file says so: Dutch leans informal further and
faster than German or French, and "je" is what most consumer software now uses.
It is written down as a single consistent choice precisely so that changing it
is a find-and-replace rather than an argument. Where a string can dodge the
question it does, which is ordinary good Dutch UI.

"Postvak IN" rather than "Inbox", because that is what Outlook and Thunderbird
call it in Dutch. "Label" stays English as in German -- no Dutch client
translates it -- which is the same rule that made French use "Libellé": use
what the reader will meet elsewhere, rather than always translating or never.

The folder-context separator needed inserting by script again, and in the
opposite way to French: there it arrived as a raw control byte and had to be
escaped, here it did not arrive at all. Both are the same underlying awkwardness
-- U+0004 does not survive being written into a file by hand -- and the
catalogue checker caught it both times by reporting the keys as stale, which is
exactly the silent failure it exists for.
2026-08-31 11:50:45 -07:00