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In Russian (maybe in others too), the description of the direction depends on the context (at the entrance and exit of the "black box").

To correctly translate these interface elements into Russian, you need to split gui-splitter: left into two objects - gui-splitter-in: left and gui-splitter-out: left.
Similarly, you need to split gui-splitter: right into two objects - gui-splitter-in: right and gui-splitter-out: right

I don't really understand what you mean, but we aren't doing to change the GUI layout

In English the words are Left and Right, If the Russian translation uses something context sensitive then I would suggest other words

To offer a different translation of directions, depending on the `entrance` and `exit`, you need the corresponding fields in the GUI interface. And you only have `gui-splitter:left` and `gui-splitter:right`.

If in English the meaning of the values `gui-splitter-in:left` and `gui-splitter-out:left` is the same, then in Russian (and possibly in others languages too) it is different.

Klonan wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:47 pm

I don't really understand what you mean, but we aren't doing to change the GUI layout

I don't know any Russian but my interpretation of @OP is that he just wants the left/right strings split into two variants. Not change the gui layout. As far as i understand he's saying that Russian doesn't have a word for "left" only for "to left" and "from left", which can't be differenciated with just one string.

The words next to the checkbox should be "input" or "output." The words on either side of the switch should be "left" or "right." Beyond that I'm not sure what is being asked for here, unless left/right don't mean the same thing in the context of input/output... but again, those are specified next to the checkbox...

akapulko wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:12 pm

If in English the meaning of the values `gui-splitter-in:left` and `gui-splitter-out:left` is the same, then in Russian (and possibly in others languages too) it is different.

Do I understand correctly that you would like to use "слева" / "справа" for the input and "налево" / "направо" for the output?
That would indeed only be possible if the game would split the internal string "gui-splitter:left" – so you can translate "gui-splitter:left-in" differently from "gui-splitter:left-out" rather than requiring you to use the same word for both input and output.

Klonan wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:47 pm

[…] but we aren't doing to change the GUI layout

In English the words are Left and Right, If the Russian translation uses something context sensitive then I would suggest other words

As far as I can see, Russian does not have a way of expressing "left" and "right" in an entirely context-independent way.
And no, this change would not imply a change of GUI layout since this meaning does not depend on rotation. This would entail only additional strings.
Most languages can safely use the same word "left" for both input and output.

Do I understand correctly that you would like to use "слева" / "справа" for the input and "налево" / "направо" for the output?

Yes.

Two suggestions (assuming the developers don't add any more strings):

1. Change it to "левая сторона" and "правая сторона" ("left side" and "right side").
2. Change the filter string to some variation of "приоритетная сторона входа\выхода" and then the strings can simply be правая \ левая with no issue.