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Add nl_NL (Dutch) translations #6894

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@nwehg nwehg commented Mar 24, 2025

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@jcollie jcollie added the translations Translations of the Ghostty app label Mar 24, 2025
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Looks good (at least for someone who doesn't know Dutch that well) — we just need one (or more) people to stand up as co-maintainer(s) and then we can go ahead with the bureaucracy and merge this./

Please resolve the merge conflict first, though :)

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nwehg commented Mar 27, 2025

I would like to stand up, I know there are some Dutch people in the discord server (check the old Netherlands thread) so there may be someone from there who also would like to.

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kjvdven commented Mar 27, 2025

This is using the formal translation of You, how is this with other languages?

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⚠️ U draait een debug versie van Ghostty! Prestaties zullen minder zijn dan normaal.

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⚠️ Je draait een debug versie van Ghostty! Prestaties zullen minder zijn dan normaal.

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pluiedev commented Mar 27, 2025

The Translator's Guide goes into more detail, but we prefer whichever formality is most appropriate for software that aims to instruct the user. (It should be noted that the user should NOT be considered as say, an esteemed customer, unlike some software I've come across before.)

In the German translation at least we use the informal "du" instead of formal "Sie", and in the Chinese translation I chose to use the informal "你" over "您" as well (that's purely down to personal preference as a Southerner who dislikes formal forms ;))

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nwehg commented Mar 27, 2025

I don't think there is a "right" form in Dutch. I've seen both but it may be better to use the informal je/jij to be consistent across the languages. The translator's guide also says:

The user should be considered an equal peer of the program and the translator, not an esteemed customer.

So I think it would be better to change it to je/jij instead of u.
I would like to hear your opinion/experience with this @kjvdven.

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kjvdven commented Mar 27, 2025

I don't think there is a "right" form in Dutch. I've seen both but it may be better to use the informal je/jij to be consistent across the languages. The translator's guide also says:

The user should be considered an equal peer of the program and the translator, not an esteemed customer.

So I think it would be better to change it to je/jij instead of u. I would like to hear your opinion/experience with this @kjvdven.

I prefer the informal.
As @pluiedev pointed out this put the user on a more friendly level and the other translations tend to be also informal.

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I was looking on Github to see if searching in the scrollback was supported and also stumbled on this PR. As I'm a native Dutch speaker, I thought to give this a quick check.

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Wim

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nwehg commented Apr 2, 2025

I was looking on Github to see if searching in the scrollback was supported and also stumbled on this PR. As I'm a native Dutch speaker, I thought to give this a quick check.

Kind regards

Wim

Thank you for taking a look! I will update these asap.

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