Bugs and feedback

1. It looks like Terms with Categories aren't being exported to Google Drive spreadsheets. Only uncategorized terms are showing up.


2. If forward slashes are present in current text (e.g. on UILabel or Text components) when localizing a new object the text preceding the slash is interpreted as a Category. I'm not sure this makes the most sense, as you'd never be putting the category in the text of the Term itself. They're just an organizational tool. It's also fairly common to have slashes in the text itself. This isn't a big deal since it's easy to fix the Category, just a mild annoyance.


3. Spaces are inserted around some characters when translating. I've seen this happen with forward slashes and I haven't tested with other characters. These have to be manually stripped out. e.g. "please email ~/.config/unity3d/darkseas/" translates to "envíe un correo electrónico
   ~ / .config / Unity3D / darkseas / " in Spanish[/il]
   
   
4. Some non-alphanumeric characters are lost when localizing a component. e.g I have a UILabel with "Campaign+". When I press Localize All the results are "Campaign " and "Campaña " for English and Spanish respectively. Note the trailing space instead of the "+". Same thing with "#". I haven't tested any others.


5. The delete button for References on Localize scripts has no icon, it's unclear what it does before clicking it.
   i.imgur.com/FSCSW3B.png


6. The functionality where clicking the translated text in a Localize component automatically changes the localized text to the language clicked is pretty cool, but it tends to leave your game in a mix of different languages when working in the Editor. Obviously this goes away at play time, it's just kind of odd to be poking around through your GUI and seeing different languages all over the place, depending on where you clicked last in each Localize component. Perhaps it would be cleaner to go back to the default language when the translated text loses focus? This way it still instantly updates, which is very helpful, but then goes back to your preferred language when you're done. This is minor, just a thought.

Frank wrote:

It looks like Terms with Categories aren't being exported to Google Drive spreadsheets. Only uncategorized terms are showing up.

Given that categories are used to organize the terms and make them easy to search, categorized terms are saved into a different sheet in the spreadsheet.
There will be one sheet per category. You can see the sheets at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Frank wrote:

If forward slashes are present in current text (e.g. on UILabel or Text components) when localizing a new object the text preceding the slash is interpreted as a Category. I'm not sure this makes the most sense, as you'd never be putting the category in the text of the Term itself. They're just an organizational tool. It's also fairly common to have slashes in the text itself. This isn't a big deal since it's easy to fix the Category, just a mild annoyance.

You mean, when inferring the term from the text?
Its true that most of the time the user will not want the term to be automatically categorized in that case. But what do you think should be the generated term? Should I replace the \ by a - so that if the label's text its "Touch Up\Down" it create a term named "Touch Up-Down" ?

Frank wrote:

Spaces are inserted around some characters when translating. I've seen this happen with forward slashes and I haven't tested with other characters. These have to be manually stripped out. e.g. "please email ~/.config/unity3d/darkseas/" translates to "envíe un correo electrónico
~ / .config / Unity3D / darkseas / " in Spanish[/il]

Hmm, that its a problem with google translation. If you open translate.google.com and translate that sentence, it will add the spaces.
I will see if I can parse it out and remove the extra spaces.

Frank wrote:

The delete button for References on Localize scripts has no icon, it's unclear what it does before clicking it.
i.imgur.com/FSCSW3B.png

its really weird that all unicode characters in your editors are not showing. Those buttons are up/down arrows used to arrange the elements when you have several objects in the list. I have yet to reproduce that issue in a computer to find why they are not showing for you.