Introduction

This is a repository for tracking changes in the formal and informal language packs for de_CH or German (Switzerland).

We're not translating manually for de_CH, we're using shell scripts to convert the de_DE translations as per this documentation. It's important that we have our own locale, because of number formating and of course because of spelling.

Differences

via shell script

• ss instead of ß
• "Europe/Zürich" instead of "Europe/Berlin"
• "Bern; Zürich; Genf" instead of "Berlin; Köln; München"
• de-ch.wordpress.org instead of de.wordpress.org (replaced only in themes)

manually

• de-CH instead of de-DE (html_lang_attribute)
• ' instead of . (number_format_thousands_sep)
• . instead of , (number_format_decimal_point)
• link to classic editor plugin is https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor for de_DE and https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor for de_CH

How it works

Replacing is (partly) done with various shell scripts which can be run by changing directory and then running e.g. sh replace-ss-in-de-ch.sh. Some of the differences mentioned above are still done manually, but eventually it could be only one main script which would run everything automatically, but this is work in progress.

de-ch.wordpress.org

This is the new Rosetta site at http://de-ch.wordpress.org for the de_CH language pack.

gsw.wordpress.org

This is the old Rosetta site at http://gsw.wordpress.org/ for the gws language pack in informal dialect.

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