Danish translations for weewx-skyfield, weewx-celestial and weewx-loopdata — and dates that follow your language

[John Kline]

Hi all,

  

All three of these extensions now speak Danish, thanks to Gert Andersen, who contributed complete translations of all three: the page prose, every panel string, the body names, the moon phases and compass points (east is Ø, west is V), and all 88 constellation names.  Tak, Gert!  The new releases are weewx-skyfield 1.17, weewx-celestial 7.8 and weewx-loopdata 6.8.

  

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-skyfield

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-celestial

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata

  

Also in weewx-skyfield 1.17: the Sky page's dates now follow the report's language (embarassingly, I had the date format hardcoded).  They used to be fixed in the English month-day style ("Aug 2") no matter the language; the date formats are now part of each translation, so a Danish or German page prints "2. aug", a French, Dutch or Spanish page "2 aug" — and English pages are unchanged.  The month and weekday names follow the report's locale, as everywhere in WeeWX: set lang to a full installed locale (e.g. lang = da_DK.UTF-8 — the Danish lang file still loads) and they render in your language too.

  

Turning it on

  

One line on the report's stanza in weewx.conf:

  

[StdReport]

    [[SkyfieldReport]]

        lang = da

and likewise for [[CelestialReport]] and [[LoopDataReport]].  (Or set it once under [StdReport] [[Defaults]] — skins that don't ship Danish simply stay English.) English reports render exactly as before.

  

Screenshots of all three pages in Danish are in the release notes:

  

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-skyfield/releases/tag/v1.17

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-celestial/releases/tag/v7.8

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-loopdata/releases/tag/v6.8

  

(The pages were captured from my own station, so you'll see Danish labels over US units — units follow each report's own settings, not the lang file.)

  

Dutch and Spanish reviewers still wanted

  

The Danish arrives written by a native speaker.  The Dutch and Spanish translations (shipped in earlier releases) are still awaiting their native-speaker reviews, the same way the German and French left Beta (thanks again, Christian and Jacques!).  If you run WeeWX in Dutch or Spanish, or just read either language: turn it on, or read the screenshots in those release notes, and tell me what a native speaker would say differently — as a reply here, a GitHub issue, or a pull request against skins/*/lang/.

  

Other languages

  

A lang file is a self-contained, no-code contribution: each skin ships lang/en.conf as its reference dictionary, and a translation is that file with the right-hand sides in your language — partial is fine, every missing string falls back to English.  If there is demand for more languages, I'm happy to do the work if you are willing to review the translated text.

  

Full release notes for all three releases follow below.

Thanks,

John

weewx-skyfield 1.17

Two things in this release: a complete Danish translation of the Sky
page, contributed by native speaker Gert Andersen, and dates that
follow the report's language: "2. aug" on a
Danish or German page where every language used to get the English
"Aug 2". Drop-in upgrade from any 1.x — install over it, no config
changes; an English page looks exactly as before.

What's new

• Danish ships.  lang/da.conf is a complete translation,
  contributed by native speaker Gert Andersen: the page prose, every
  panel string, the body names, the moon phases, the compass points
  (east is Ø, west V, SSW is SSV) and all 88 constellation names. One
  line turns it on:

  [StdReport]
      [[SkyfieldReport]]
          lang = da
  

  Tests keep the Danish complete the same way they keep the German,
  French, Dutch and Spanish: new strings cannot ship untranslated.

  

  And single-column, as a tablet or phone sees it:

  

• Dates follow the language. The page's three date formats — the
  header date, the countdown chips, the panel tooltip dates — were
  fixed in the code in the English month-day style; no setting could
  reorder them. They are now translatable [Texts] keys, so every
  shipped language gets its own order out of the box: "2. aug" for
  Danish and German, "2 aug" for French, Dutch and Spanish, and the
  English unchanged. The month and weekday names follow the
  report's locale, WeeWX-standard: set lang to a full installed
  locale — e.g. lang = da_DK.UTF-8, which still loads da.conf —
  and the names render in the report's language too (on Debian-family
  systems, enable the locale first with
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales). The manual's
  Translations page
  has the details.

• Known Skyfield Issues — a new README section and
  manual page
  covering the rare, benign RuntimeWarning from Skyfield's
  almanac.py line 339 (upstream
  skyfield #1114;
  this extension's author diagnosed the root cause and contributed a
  proposed fix upstream). weewx-skyfield already discards the affected
  event, so reports render complete and no user action is needed.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or later
• WeeWX 5.2 or later
• Skyfield (1.47 or later) and NumPy in WeeWX's Python environment (see the
  README); PyEphem is NOT required

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-skyfield.zip from this release, then:

weectl extension install weewx-skyfield.zip

Restart WeeWX. No weewx.conf changes are needed when upgrading from
1.x. Note that upgrading replaces the bundled skin (skins/Skyfield/,
including its lang/ files) — if you have edited an installed lang file
(trying out corrections, say), save a copy or send the corrections
upstream first; local additions such as extra star names survive
upgrades best as [[[Almanac]]] entries in weewx.conf (see the
manual).

weewx-celestial 7.8

A complete Danish translation of the sample skin ships, contributed by
native speaker Gert Andersen. Drop-in upgrade
from 7.x — install over it, no config changes, no loop-data field
changes; a page in any other language looks exactly as before.
Released alongside weewx-skyfield 1.17 and weewx-loopdata 6.8, which
ship the same Danish for their pages.

What's new

• Danish ships.  lang/da.conf is a complete translation,
  contributed by native speaker Gert Andersen, whose shared vocabulary
  — body names, moon phases, compass points and all 88 constellation
  names — is copied verbatim from weewx-skyfield's Danish, and a test
  keeps the extensions in step (as it does for the German, French,
  Dutch and Spanish). Because the live loop-data values follow the
  language of loopdata's target report, one line switches the whole
  page, labels and live values alike:

  [StdReport]
      [[CelestialReport]]
          lang = da
  

  

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or later
• WeeWX 5.2 or later
• weewx-loopdata
  5.0 or later
• weewx-skyfield
  strongly recommended (required for Proxima Centauri), or PyEphem

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-celestial.zip from this release, then install right over
the existing 7.x:

weectl extension install weewx-celestial.zip

Restart WeeWX. No weewx.conf changes are needed when upgrading from 7.x.
(Upgrading from 6.x or earlier follows the README's upgrade instructions —
those paths do need the uninstall step, and from 5.x the migration
utility.)

weewx-loopdata 6.8

A complete Danish translation of the sample report ships, contributed
by native speaker Gert Andersen. Drop-in
upgrade — install over 6.x; no configuration changes, and every
existing fields line produces the same values as before. Released
alongside weewx-skyfield 1.17 and weewx-celestial 7.8, which ship the
same Danish for their pages.

What's new

• Danish ships.  lang/da.conf is a complete Danish translation
  of the sample report, contributed by native speaker Gert Andersen —
  the gauge headings (Dugpunkt, Barometer, Nedbør,
  Solindstråling), the nine trend.barometer.desc tendency
  descriptions (Stigende, Stabil, Faldende), and, for a loopdata
  instance whose target report is Danish, the compass ordinates (Ø for
  east, SSV for SSW), moon phases, body and all 88 constellation names
  — the shared vocabulary in step with weewx-skyfield's and
  weewx-celestial's Danish (the same cross-repo test that pins the
  German, French, Dutch and Spanish). Select it with lang = da on
  the report's stanza.

  

Requirements

• WeeWX 4 or 5 (translations need WeeWX 4.6 or later)
• Python 3.7 or later
• No third-party Python packages required

Installing/upgrading

Download weewx-loopdata.zip
and install it over your existing copy, then restart weewxd:

weectl extension install weewx-loopdata.zip

(or wee_extension --install weewx-loopdata.zip on WeeWX 4).