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Hi everyone, here is something that should be relevant for most languages that have longer words than English:

You can try to solve the issue with abbreviations, but that is less-than-optimal (similar to writing Sett. instead of Settings):

My proposal would be to either change the navigation to a vertical one or at least provide title tags to compensate for abbreviations (using abbr would probably too complicated in the translation context).

The same goes for the "Save as Draft" string:

In this case you could just use the word Entwurf (Draft) in German, but this can be confusing too.

My suggestion would be to change the CSS in this case to:

label.save-as-draft {
    margin-top: 5px;
    margin-right: 4px;
    float: left;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

removing the width and adding the nowrap. Or just moving the checkbox in its own row.

After translating the main language file, I looked at some of the language files for the apps.
But then I see that many of the strings here (i.e. "Date" and "Blog") is repeated (comparing main language file and the one that comes with perch_blog).

That makes it a bit tiresome to have to translate certain strings again and again through the different apps (there are quite a few standard apps now).

Could this be handled so that a string/key is NOT repeated in the app-language-file if it is present in the main translation file?

I'd like to add some french translations who are not yet in place, as for example "select an existing image" etc...

That would be better than rewriting the sentences each time :-)