[Solved] Timeshift language not translating to norwegian

[sinterva]

I've noticed on my system that some programs are not translating fully to norwegian.
One of the most obvious programs suffering from this is timeshift.
It happens sometimes in the terminal also, in the terminal I have a rudimentary fix for it in bashrc

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#Force english fallback
export LANGUAGE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:en"

I also edited /etc/environment to force graphical programs to do the same.

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LANGUAGE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:en"

Forcing english is an acceptable fix for the time being, but it is somewhat bugging me that the system can't get the language right.

Is this because the program has not been translated or because of some settings issue with locales.
How much work would it take to make the translation if no one has done it?
Like how big a list of words would need to be entered, I mean I could give it a shot since my native language is norwegian
and english as a second language would make it pretty easy for me.
But that is making the assumption that it is a translation problem and not a settings problem with debian.

[sinterva]

After looking around a bit on github I found that the file included with timeshift did indeed have an only partial translation.
So I'm currently translating it in a fork, I've never done this before, but hopefully I will be able to give a pull request and
have the translations accepted, it says on top.

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# Norwegian Bokmal translation for linuxmint
# Copyright (c) 2017 Rosetta Contributors and Canonical Ltd 2017
# This file is distributed under the same license as the linuxmint package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2017.

So I'm not sure if this is the right place to translate it or not,
but if not I will just have to copy/paste my translations to where they need to be later

[Aki]

Hello,

After looking around a bit on github I found that the file included with timeshift did indeed have an only partial translation.
[..]
So I'm not sure if this is the right place to translate it or not,
but if not I will just have to copy/paste my translations to where they need to be later

You can see here to contribute:

• Debian » Developers-reference 13.6 documentation » 8. Internationalization and Translations¶

Hope this helps.

[sinterva]

Right thx, I'll look into it!