Problem/Motivation

#2532634: Add Simple English added Simple English on localize.drupal.org. To make it easy to add to Drupal installs, we should add Simple English to core too.

Proposed resolution

Add Simple English.

Remaining tasks

Do it.

User interface changes

Simple English will be easy to add.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

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Gábor Hojtsy created an issue. See original summary.

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Status: Active » Needs review
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Issue tags: +sprint
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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community
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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed/pushed to 8.1.x and cherry-picked to 8.0.x. Thanks!

  • catch committed 4807099 on 8.1.x 
    Issue #2656202 by Gábor Hojtsy: Add Simple English to Drupal core

  • catch committed 30f1ffb on 
    Issue #2656202 by Gábor Hojtsy: Add Simple English to Drupal core

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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gábor hojtsy
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Issue tags: -sprint

Superb, thanks!

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Version: 8.0.x-dev » 9.x-dev

I know this issue is already fixed, but let me post an idea here before opening another issue to potentially undo this...

How about not having "English" and "Simple English" - but "English" and "Developers' English"? Then we can make labels and help texts that are generally easy to understand (with hopefully no need to dumb it down any further) - but additionally "translate" them in a much more technically - and technically correct - wording, where we could talk for example about entities types, entity bundles and entities, and where we could add the drush command to do the same task as the GUI of that page.

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Version: 9.x-dev » 8.2.x-dev

Not sure why the version got changed.

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@ifrik: well, Drupal uses 'English' by default for the text that is in source codes. That is the source for every other translation. Dramatic changes in that are not allowed due to backwards compatibility. So the change you are proposing I am not sure is possible in Drupal 8. Unless you want a more "technically correct" English "translation" and keep English as-is. Either way, localize.drupal.org has Simplified English, so that is why this landed in core, to match the languages there. If we are to remove it from core, then there is no point in having it on localize.drupal.org either. The driver behind Simple English on localize.drupal.org was to have a space to experiment with more dramatic string changes while otherwise keeping backwards compatibility for source strings.