Not able to translate Select the primary category

  • Resolved Rasti Tkac

    (@rastiwebkinder)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there

    We came across a problem when using Yoast SEO in german (specifically de_CH).
    It is not possible to correctly translate the label “Select primary category” over primary category selection box in post editor: https://cln.sh/4g3Xz8

    In german, nouns are written always starting with capital letter but your code is forcing lower case in the name of the taxonomy (in this case “category” instead of “Category”).

    Can you help us with this?

    Best Regards
    Rasti

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  • Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @rastiwebkinder

    We understand you have a concern with the translation of the Yoast SEO plugin in German (de_CH).

    Just to clarify, the issue is you can’t translate the ‘select primary category’ text because of the lower case?

    Is it to do with when you try to translate the strings here – https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de-ch/informal/wp-plugins/wordpress-seo

    Thread Starter Rasti Tkac

    (@rastiwebkinder)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @mikes41720

    Our concern is that we cannot translate that string correctly into german, because taxonomy name is forced to be lower case.

    This is problem in german, because nouns in german are to be written with capital letter. So the translated string would be “Wählen sie primäre Kategorie”.

    In the code linked above the .toLowerCase() must be omitted to allow for correct translation. I don’t see any reason, why that string should be forced to be lower case in any other cases anyway.

    Best regards,
    Rasti

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Rasti Tkac. Reason: Better formulation
    Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @rastiwebkinder

    We understand you are unable to translate the string of ‘Select the primary category’ into German (de_CH) because of code in the Yoast SEO plugin that forces the taxonomy name to be in the lower case.

    Since this might require a change in the code and would require further review, we recommend that you submit a bug report in our GitHub repository so our developers can take a further look at this. Thank you!

    devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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