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Address: fr, fr-CA, ru, uk, bg, cs, sk, hu, ro, el, hr, id, ms, kk, hi, tr, pl and pt-PT now speak to the person in the register Apple uses for each language (vous, capitalized Вы, vykání, magázás, Greek plural, hr sentences in the plural with singular button imperatives, tr plural imperative -in, pl capitalized Ty, pt-PT third person without pronoun, bg/ro plural imperatives). About 5,300 catalog values changed across the 27 catalogs, mostly Messages and Placeholders, plus the Action buttons of bg, ro, sk and cs. Parenthesis, slash and middle-dot gender forms such as "sûr(e)" and "уверен(а)" were rephrased neutrally. A few mistranslations found on the way were corrected as well. Ellipsis: every "..." in the catalogs is now the single character "…" (German with a no-break space before it, zh-Hant and zh-HK as "⋯"), and the 23 default values in the Photo and Video module read "…" too.
Actions in bg, el, hu, cs, sk, ru, kk, tr and pt-PT now use the form Apple prescribes for buttons (singular imperative, nominal form or infinitive) instead of the polite plural imperative. Placeholders, labels and messages stay polite. Equal action keys carry the same value per language across all catalogs, except playNow, review and record whose meaning differs by module.
Apple's French style guide puts buttons, options and input placeholders in the infinitive. Convert the vous imperatives in all fr and fr-CA placeholders (Entrez/Saisissez/Choisissez/Tapez ...) to Saisir/Entrer/Choisir/Taper ..., and fix the fr-CA find-a-player placeholder that said exercise.
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Overview
The translations now follow Apple's localization style guides for how each language addresses people. Where Apple uses a formal register, so does this package now: French „vous“, Russian «Вы», Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Croatian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Indonesian, Malay and Hindi. European Portuguese uses the third person without a pronoun. Turkish sentences use the plural imperative „-in“, never the stiff „-iniz“. Polish uses a capitalized „Ty/Twój“. Languages where Apple addresses people informally stay as they were: German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, the Nordic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.
Buttons take the form Apple uses for buttons in each language, because the polite form belongs in sentences:
Field placeholders and instructions count as sentences.
TranslateKit's strings are meant to read like Apple's own UI, so this aligns them with Apple's localization style guides in every language. Parenthetical gender forms such as „sûr(e)“, „уверен(а)“ or „Student/in“ are rephrased neutrally, which Apple's guides forbid. A key that appears in several category catalogs now carries the same wording everywhere, for example
debug, which read „Encriptar“ in pt-PT.Ellipses are now always the single „…“ character, never three periods. German puts a non-breaking space before it („Laden …“), as Apple does. Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant, zh-HK) uses the midline „⋯“. The 23
defaultValueliterals inTranslateKitPhotoAndVideoLitefollow the same rule.Impact on apps using this package
No API changes. Apps that ship these languages will show different text there, though. An app whose own strings still address people informally, for example French „tu“, will mix two registers in one screen until it switches as well. That is why this change warrants a major version.
Examples (before → after)
Changed values per language: ro 1351, zh-HK 556, zh-Hant 555, de 552, hr 476, bg 467, el 446, sk 405, hu 361, tr 329, ru 322, cs 320, pt-PT 275, fr 229, fr-CA 225, kk 85, uk 71, id 65, pl 48, ms 31, ja 25, hi 25, ar 23, ca 23, da 23, en 23, en-AU 23, en-GB 23, es 23, es-419 23, fi 23, he 23, it 23, ko 23, nb 23, nl 23, pt-BR 23, sv 23, th 23, zh-Hans 23, vi 22.
How this was verified
swift buildsucceeds.