Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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The MGT
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Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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Is there a contact person at BGA who deals with errors on the site? For example, texts that do not appear in the translation list?

For example, I have noticed that "minutes" is mostly abbreviated, but in various ways, most of which are wrong.

Bug reports on this get lost in the crowd, see
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=72266

Physical units are standardised, there is actually no room for interpretation. The time unit "minute" is therefore abbreviated "min" (without a dot).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute

On BGA, I wait for arena games "1 m", according to SI it reads "one metre".
Elsewhere on BGA I read "2 mn", but according to SI there is only "2 mN" in the sense of "two millinewtons".

I am happy to report any places where this occurs. But only if someone takes up the issue...
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Re: Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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i did find one instance of m in the translation system, in the string "${hour} h ${mn} m ago" when searching for mn (searching for just m seems pointless). you could request that to be changed by setting the system to translate from Eng -> Eng.

i think you'd need to compile a list of where changes are needed, as it's very hard to seach for m.
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Re: Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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As I said, I believe that these texts are not included in the translation system at all. Only a BGA developer can confirm this. Do you know one?

And what is displayed in your language behind the small clock while you are waiting for an arena table? "1m"?
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Re: Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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the developers would need a way to find these instances.

the game clock is one item (and yes, it says "1m", but it probably would when translated also).
so, a list of other items (not in translation system).

the developer that used to visit the translation forum was Een, and he has left the building.
it's not strictly a translation issue, though.
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Re: Troubleshooting, standardisation and translation of "minute" and abbreviations thereof

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The developers can have a simple look into their code.

It's OK if you can't help with this. I still hope that someone from team will find the way to forum. And from my point of view a text which is not in the translation system is a translation issue.
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