[5.x]: Adding matrix blocks: Incorrect translations

[wsydney76]

What happened?

Description

Buttons are labeled with wrong grammatical articles in German:

Matrix field with multiple entry types (cards):

Has to be 'Neuer Eintrag'

Matrix field with multiple entry types (inline):

Translation missing? Would have to be 'Neuer Block'

Matrix field with single entry type:

Has to be 'Neuer Standort' in this case.

• Keep upper case in place
• There is no way in German (and probably other languages) to automatically create a correct caption:
• • New location -> Neuer Standort
• • New role -> Neue Rolle
• • New document -> Neues Dokument

Could be 'xyz hinzufügen' (add xyz), like in relational fields.

And another argument to make this configurable.

PS.
And a missing translation here:

Steps to reproduce

1. Create matrix field
2. Set CP language to German

Expected behavior

Correct language

Actual behavior

Wrong, unprofessional-looking language

Craft CMS version

Craft Solo 5.0.x-dev

PHP version

8.2.13

Operating system and version

Linux 5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

Database type and version

MySQL 8.0.33

Image driver and version

No response

Installed plugins and versions

[brandonkelly]

Matrix field with multiple entry types (cards):

Has to be 'Neuer Eintrag'

Is this an issue in Craft 4 as well, then (e.g. from the Entries index page)?

Matrix field with multiple entry types (inline):

Translation missing? Would have to be 'Neuer Block'

We haven’t ordered new translations for Craft 5 quite yet.

And another argument to make this configurable.

Yep, been meaning to do that. Just got around to it for the next release. Going forward Matrix fields will have a “New” Button Label setting, where you can set exactly what the button label should be.

[brandonkelly]

5.0.0-beta.7 is out now with that new Matrix setting.

[wsydney76]

@brandonkelly Great, thanks.

Is this an issue in Craft 4 as well, then (e.g. from the Entries index page)?

No, that's correct in Craft 4 and 5

PS. There is (and I think always has been) a minor translation issue

should be 'Einträgen' (genitiv). Does'nt get into focus so much, so probably gets ignored. Would be ok for me if the word is simply omitted, as there is no additional value in it.

[brandonkelly]

• Keep upper case in place

Is this a stylistic preference, or is Eintrag a “proper noun” that must be capitalized?

[wsydney76]

@brandonkelly

Every noun is always capitalized in German, without exception, see Wikipedia article about this and other weirdnesses.

[brandonkelly]

Good to know!

[brandonkelly]

I’ve updated the German New {type} translation so it will output Neuer when type is Eintrag or Benutzer. (9a670fd, 7c4135b)

I’ve also removed all of the element type-specific New X messages (New category, New entry, New global set, and New user) in favor of using New {type}, so any additional special cases can be handled centrally and we don’t have to worry about some things being translated inconsistently. (5e7dca6)

[youwebmax]

Hi, can you please also adjust this translation for the language de-CH? The same rules apply as in de.

[brandonkelly]

@youwebmax I’ve made that change in CrowdIn for the next release, thanks!