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I dont think you understand how localization works. They have a localization file and they send them off to a translation service. The translation service goes
by supermatt 3y ago
I dont think you understand how localization works. They have a localization file and they send them off to a translation service. The translation service goes through the file and translates the individual strings (or string fragments).
Either the translators made a mistake, and thought it was referring to a ZIP (regardless of capitalization) and translated accordingly, or a developer used the wrong key when assembling the string references - i.e. he used the equivalent of (this is pseudocode as I dont know how they handle localizations):
localize("CompressToArchive", localize("Zip"), localize("File")) - i.e. with a reference to localization of "Zip" (or ZIP, or zip - the dev likely just searched for a string that matched what he wanted to localize)
instead of
localize("CompressToArchive", "Zip", localize("File")) - i.e. with a string of "Zip"
where the strings are defined as:
CompressToArchive: Compress to %1.%2 (same for us and uk)
Zip: ZIP (us) or postcode (uk)
File: File (same for us and uk)