User talk:Aey Tai Nuea

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Complete translations

Hi!

Thank you very much for translations into Tai Nuea! They mostly look good technically.

I have just one little technical comment. In some messages, you've left some English text untranslated:

1. In the message https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&showMessage=show-big-image-other&group=core&language=tdd&filter=&optional=1&action=translate, please translate resolution|resolutions.
2. In the message https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&showMessage=wikimedia-copyrightwarning&group=ext-wikimediamessages&language=tdd&filter=&optional=1&action=translate, please translate "Terms of Use" and "License".

Thank you! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Overlong strings: do you prefer spaces or soft hyphens?

For now, web browsers have no defined rules to allow automatic wraps for the Tai Nua language and script. I understand that that language (and the TaiNua script) prefer using no space separation between words.

In Babel boxes, some messages were entered using no space between any word, but in the case of Babelboxes, this generates overlong strings, where line wraps are desirable. Note also that selectively inserting spaces which may look fine in your environment, may not be correct on iothers if they use different fonts (so overlong strings may still appear).

Do you prefer using regular spaces U+0020 ( or   or  ) or soft hyphens U+00AD (in XML, HTML, and messages parsed by MediaWiki, you can use character entities ­ or &#xAD or ­) to insert line wrap opportunities? Soft hyphens are normally invisible if there's no linewrap, but allow a line break to occur there; when this occurs on a soft-hypen between two Tai Nua letters, webbrowsers just insert a line-wrap normally without actually inserting any additional hyphen at end of the first line).

But you may opt for soft hyphens.The possibility of using soft hyphens should be documented/discussed on the Portal:Tdd for use in specific messages that need to be used on narrow column widths (but note that character entities are valid in HTML or MediaWiki messages, but may not be supported on all messages, if they just expect plain text; if only plain-text is needed, you'll need to enter the character itself, encoded in Unicode (on a Windows, you can press [Alt+0173] on the numeric pad, if your keyboard layout you use for Tai Nua does not have this character; on mobile devices such as Android or iOS, or Windows-based tablets, you may need an addon in the Mediawiki editor, or you could use a custom tool in your web browser to insert that character; the alternative is to customize your keyboard layout by defining a keystroke to enter that character).

For now I used a space around each of the two links in Babelbox messages (but I did not insert other spaces elsewhere), in the hope that this makes links more acessible to users that will see these links more easily in the MediaWiki interface where links are not underlined but just shown with a color difference which may be less easy to detect by human eyes, and which may not be easy to click distinctly). Verdy p (talk) 08:44, 20 April 2023 (UTC)