Hi Kyle,
There are currently two problems with the translation of community builder. Often, I have no idea about the variables that are contained within the language strings eg [title] or [album] or whatever so I am trying to translate basically blind. Would it be possible to output a long list of all the Constants and their english translations? Just like you did for the triggers here: www.joomlapolis.com/documentation/18358-using-cb-triggers

Secondly, you are putting together notifications eg if people commented on the same post. That is really good. What is missing though is an additional constant for the plural.

Here is an example in english (which is correct):

Robert Rohlfs  and Thorsten Mötje  commented on your post Habe 10 Euro an die Holvi bank überwiesen. in group Gründung

Here is the translation in German (which is not correct because of the missing plural):
Robert Rohlfs  und Thorsten Mötje  hat einen Kommentar auf deinem Post Habe 750 Euro an die Holvi bank überwiesen. in der Gruppe Gründung geschrieben

In German, it should be:
Robert Rohlfs  und Thorsten Mötje  haben Kommentare auf deinem Post Habe 750 Euro an die Holvi bank überwiesen. in der Gruppe Gründung geschrieben

Could we therefore add more constants?

Hi Kyle, the new ABOUT_TITLE language string works perfectly, no problem and is easy to translate. It is an elegant solution.

I was just proposing something (the list with all strings) to make the use of CB easier in general (not with reference to the ABOUT_TITLE string). I have been fighting on and off for a month with the translations now. I had thought that you would have a language file which you could just copy and paste on the website so that we who are doing the translation can use it as a reference. I could have used that a lot so that I know where the [variables] are in the text.

The verbs are different in German (and whole hosts of other languages) depending on if one person is commenting (hat ein Kommentar...geschrieben) and if several have commmented (haben...Kommentare geschrieben) so your solution would not solve the problem. It is more of a language problem.

To be honest, I cannot think of any way you can get around it. The grammar of the languages is so varied that you cannot use a singular string for meaning plural (english is one of the very few languages where you can as you have nearly no difference between singular and plural in the preteritum/past (eg commented/commented, he tore/they tore, he played/they played).

Now in German (er hat kommentiert/sie haben kommentiert; er zeriss/ sie zerissen; er spielte/ sie spielten), French (a commenté/ ont commentés; il a déchirré; ils ont déchirrés; il a joué/ils ont joués). Same for spanish and italian.

Kind regards,

Tim

Easy to know which ones. Everywhere where you are updating the notifications to show more than one person (eg comments and likes), it needs to be plural aware.

If there is only one person is the "author" of the notification then it can be singular (eg Tim commented on post X). If you are combining two notifications (eg Tim and Kyle commented on post X) then it needs to be plural aware.