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Follow-up to #10439. Fixes mistranslations in the Simplified Chinese (zh_Hans_CN) catalogue and aligns its terminology with the Chinese PostgreSQL documentation. 162 entries are changed; only messages.po is touched.

Fixes for broken output. These are in the current catalogue but not yet in the compiled .mo, so they would reach users with the next compile:

  • Three JS strings have their positional %s swapped. The JS gettext fills %s strictly left to right, so the update notice, for example, would render as 您当前运行的是 9.10 的 pgAdmin 4 版本 ("the pgAdmin 4 version of 9.10").
  • : error: uses full-width colons, so the process watcher regex in ProcessDetails.jsx would no longer highlight error lines.
  • -- missing definition has its SQL comment marker replaced by an em dash.
  • %s objects are disabled in the browser... treats the object type as a count.

Other changes:

  • Wrong or reversed meanings, e.g. the ERD drag-and-drop message (read as deleting a table), the DBMS Scheduler Schedule (translated as "task"), Is inherited?, Enable Replica, Collatable?, Like, Truncate Restart Identity and pgAgent Exceptions.
  • Adjacent fields that had identical labels: References / Referencing and Warning / Alert.
  • PostgreSQL terms as used in the documentation, e.g. 注释 (comment), 操作符 (operator), 聚簇 (CLUSTER), 流复制 (streaming replication), 预备事务 (prepared transactions), 载荷 (NOTIFY payload) and 过滤 (filter). Tab is now consistently 标签页.
  • Untranslated leftovers such as 表(s), 会话token and date/time. The month-day options 1st…31st now read 1 日…31 日.

Validation

  • msgfmt -c and pybabel compile: 3684 of 3684 translated, no errors.
  • Only msgstr values changed, and placeholders and HTML tags still match each msgid.
  • The .mo is not included, as it is regenerated before release.

Related

These cannot be fixed in the catalogue alone:

  • pgadmin/utils/__init__.py:627 and :666 format the string before calling gettext, so those messages are never translated.
  • Some msgids are shared between contexts and need pgettext, e.g. Next (wizard / find dialog) and Header (EDB package / CSV).
  • pga_schedule.ui.js:134-136 splits one sentence into fragments that cannot be translated naturally.

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  • Translations
    • Updated Simplified Chinese translations throughout pgAdmin with more consistent terminology and clearer phrasing across interface text.
    • Standardized translations for terms such as tabs, operators, profiles, comments, filters, and schedules.
    • Revised ordinal day-of-month labels to use a concise format, such as “1日” through “31日.”

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The Simplified Chinese translation catalog has updated metadata and revised translation strings across application navigation, authentication, database administration, and database tools. The message keys remain unchanged.

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Simplified Chinese translations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Application navigation and authentication
web/pgadmin/translations/zh_Hans_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
Revised translations for tab navigation and preferences, authentication messages, workspace text, and browser labels.
Database objects and administration
web/pgadmin/translations/zh_Hans_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
Revised terminology in database object dialogs, scheduler and role messages, replication labels, version messages, and dashboard text.
Query, backup, and modeling tools
web/pgadmin/translations/zh_Hans_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
Revised translations for editor preferences, backup and restore, query filtering, debugging, ERD, schema diff, and result messages.

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Seven moderate translation issues remain unresolved.

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What changed in this PR

Corrects 214 mistranslated Simplified Chinese catalogue entries across pgAdmin.

Changes:

  • Fixed placeholder ordering and syntax-sensitive punctuation.
  • Improved PostgreSQL, scheduler, debugger, ERD, and UI terminology.
  • Standardized wording and removed machine-translation artifacts.

Outstanding review findings: Seven moderate issues remain, covering Next context, percentage labels, two database-selection messages, and the INCLUDING GENERATED label.

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web/​pgadmin/​translations/​zh_Hans_CN/​LC_MESSAGES/​messages.po Revised 214 Simplified Chinese translations.

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In `@web/pgadmin/translations/zh_Hans_CN/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po`:
- Line 15702: Update the ERD error translation used by onDropNode to state that
a table cannot be dragged in from outside the current database, preserving the
source direction of the restriction.

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Correct 162 entries in the zh_Hans_CN catalogue: strings that are wrong
rather than merely worded differently, plus terminology aligned with
the Chinese PostgreSQL documentation.

- Restore the order of positional %s placeholders in three strings.
  The JavaScript gettext fills %s strictly left to right, so the
  reordered translations garbled the update notice, the preference
  load error and the user password length error.
- Keep the half-width colons in ': error: ', which ProcessDetails.jsx
  matches with a regex to highlight error lines, and the SQL comment
  marker in '-- missing definition'.
- Fix strings whose meaning was wrong or reversed, e.g. the ERD drag
  and drop message, relhassubclass, RESTART IDENTITY, ENABLE REPLICA,
  COLLATABLE, CREATE TABLE ... LIKE, and the DBMS Scheduler
  "Schedule" object being called a task.
- Give distinct labels to adjacent fields that shared one, and remove
  leftovers such as "表(s)", "会话token" and an untranslated
  "date/time".
- Use the established Chinese terms where the translation picked the
  wrong sense, e.g. Dependents (previously given the word for
  dependencies), local variables and the package body.
- Follow the terminology of the Chinese PostgreSQL documentation:
  注释 (comment), 字符分类 (LC_CTYPE), 操作符 (operator), 聚簇
  (CLUSTER), 提供者 (provider), 流复制 (streaming replication),
  预备事务 (prepared transaction), 载荷 (NOTIFY payload) and 过滤
  (filter).
- Translate Tab as 标签页 throughout, and the month-day options
  1st-31st as 1 日-31 日.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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