"Get it on string" in badges page

[yakushabb]

The "Get it on" string on badge pages looks good in English.

Unfortunately, it's a split sentence.

Do not translate it literally. Keep it as short as possible. It should be a call to action. It's always followed by "Flathub", so for example, "Get it on Flathub".

As you guessed, it's problematic in non-SVO languages like Turkish (an SOV language).

A proper translation might be a sentence similar to the following:

"Flathub'dan
Edin"

"Flathub'dan
Al"

"Flathub
İle Kur"

/Reported by Berk Elyesa

[Beryesa]

Thanks for reporting, it's really broken for many SOV languages like Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Hindi... etc indeed.
I made a little page for a broader overview, hope it's helpful

Little ping @jimmac xP

[bragefuglseth]

The App Store approach with variable badge length is probably hard to pull off with SVG.

For the translation part, though, I think it would be smart to keep it as one string divided into three lines:

Get it on\n
Flathub\n

Then a language with reverse line ordering could do:

\n
Flathub’dan\n
Edin

This would make the context and usage clear to translators, and the translated strings could be split at \n and applied based on which lines are empty/filled. If both the upper and bottom lines contain text, something is wrong, and the translator should be notified about it.

[bragefuglseth]

FWIW I’d be interested in working on this once the details have been decided on properly.

[razzeee]

I think weblate will warn/error if the source translation has special strings such as \n and your translation misses them. So that could work, but needs us to verify this. The easiest way would without breaking anything, would probably be creating that translation in addition to what we have and maybe create a copy of the api, that's using that translation.

If we've confirmed it's working, wait for / migrate translations and then remove the current implementation and replace it with the newer.