Quote by Yves:

You're free to do what you like. I'd suggest you upload the ZIP in this thread so that everyone can have a look at it.

Quote by Yves:

I can only check the technical aspects, my French is probably not good enough to find errors in detail. (Although my name may imply something else. )

Quote by Yves:

Fyi, I have just updated the FAQ page and now the section on editing translation files is back and updated again.

• With "register" and "login" I thought of two different things. Registering is creating the user account, logging in is, well, visiting the board.

• "Group memberships" is untranslated.

• Main navigation: "membres" and user profile: "messages" are lowercase.

• Isn't "MB" (megabyte) in French "Mo" (megaoctet or so)?

• Decimal point in French should be a comma ",". Not sure about the thousands grouping, is that a space " "?

• "Il n'y a pas de sous-forum en dessous du forum courant" - False negative. There _are_ subforums...

• "un utilisateur est en ligne" etc should begin with a capital letter

• "préférences avancées pour ce forum" should begin with a capital letter. Seems to be a common problem.

• Aren't the correct quotation marks « and » and the apostroph ’ instead of " and ' ?

• "Catégories" from the forum edit form should be singular I think

• "Mod?teur du forum" (should be Forums editor), "Inverser la s?ction" and "Vous pouvez renseigner vos centres d'int?ts" look a little defective

• same for "Les 10 sujets les plus visit?ces deux dernières semaines :" plus the space before the colon

• "Réduction auto (avatars)" why is that in brackets?

• The description of the "Masquer les images" sounds wrong. It means the post attachment images, not those inserted by the [img] tag in the message body.

• "La taille maximum est de 200×200 pixels et 40 kBits." - Bits? Should be bytes.

• "...au cache de votre navigateur : il vous suffit..." there's a space before the colon. Same for "...Port par défaut : 5222..."

• "L\utilisation de la fonction mail()"

• "Considérer l'utilisateur comme ‘déconnecté (hors ligne) après" looks incomplete (quotes)

• "L'enregistrement de nouveaux utilisateurs peut aussi être entièrement Désactivé" - last word is capitalised, no full stop at the end.

• "Liste des membres | Liste des Modérateurs" - why is "Modérateurs" written uppercase?

• Userlist order "Date d'enreg." doesn't need to be abbreviated

• "précédent" and "suivant" are only used for pages so they can be the same form as with "Page suivante".

• The default date format definitions are incorrect. I see some "PM" where a year number should be. Please refer to the PHP documentation for the date() function for the correct date format identifiers.

Quote by davidm:

Thanks for the pointer about the plugins, I have found out this when looking for the groups editor translation (which appeared in german while the rest was in english). I'll take care of this too

I too am a perfectionnist, I'll hone this to a fine tuned translation

Quote by Yves:

• With "register" and "login" I thought of two different things. Registering is creating the user account, logging in is, well, visiting the board.[/quote]

Well there is no confusion for me about that, and I didn't find inconsistencies but I admit I might have missed something.
Login can mean "Identifiant" if we are talking of the Login or "Se connecter" if it's the action of Logging in.
Register is "Créer un compte" or could also be translated by "S'enregistrer".

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* The description of the "Masquer les images" sounds wrong. It means the post attachment images, not those inserted by the [img] tag in the message body.

I could replace "Masquer les images" by "Remplacer les images par un lien de téléchargement", but no I did not get this one wrong. The explanation string is consistent : the inserted image gets replaced by a download link.

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* "Réduction auto (avatars)" why is that in brackets?

I guess I could have chosen a more litteral translation like "Petits Avatars" but it seemed ambiguous and the goal I try to achieve when translating is stick to the spirit rather than the letter. English is far more concise than french. Two words strings can easily be turned into six or seven words to convey the same meaning. This can be a problem and there are ways to use the french language in a more synthetic commonly accepted way. That's what I am trying to do, always keeping in mind the important thing is to be clear and concise.

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* Aren't the correct quotation marks « and » and the apostroph ’ instead of " and ' ?

Yes indeed, but it's the first time someone points this out.
« and ’ are special characters not accessed via keyboard and I have always worked with the \' approach not the ’ which is a shame since it's bothersome to add a \ sign each time you have an ’