About the Style Guides category

All there is to know to localize all together, in a consistent way, with the Proton style.

We have two types of Style Guide:

  • A general Style Guide for all languages: Guidance for all languages
  • Specific Style Guides for some languages (Style Guide for French, Style Guide for German…)

How to create a new Style Guide?

  • The creation of a Style Guide dedicated to a language is driven by the Language Lead.
  • When a Language Lead is motivated to create a Style Guide for her/his community, she/he simply informs @PMtranslator.
  • Proton localization team will then provide a methodology, some guidance and a template.

How to modify and improve a Style Guide?

  • Anyone can propose changes and improvements.
  • Make sure your suggestion is endorsed by your Language Lead and your language community: you can ask some feedback creating a dedicated topic in the Translation Feedback sub-category. Doing this, use the tag @yourlanguage in your message. Here is an example.
  • Finally, post a reply in your Style Guide topic, making sure your modification request is clear and complete since the person implementing it may not speak your language: please indicate exactly where it should be applied in the Style Guide and provide a text that can be copied and pasted as is.
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