There is a serious soup between str and unicode all over that file… I’m reworking it.
EDIT Done with e83c44200
I tested english, french and german on both py2 and py3, it is working everywhere for me. Please report if any issue persists!
Thanks Yorik, the StartPage is back for me in the latest freecad-daily build, but the encoding of the tab (Page de dĀ©marrage) persists.
Edit: just noticed a similar issue with the “Aide” (Help) tab. Everywhere there is an apostrophe ('), a backslash is inserted before it (Communauté d'utilisateurs, Obtenir de l'aide de la communauté, etc.)
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15518 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: e83c44200ab428b753a1e08a2e4d95e03236e481
Python version: 2.7.15rc1
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: French/Canada (fr_CA)
It seems that none of the text strings for the Start page options in Preferences → Start are available for translation on Crowdin.
Good catch.. Now they are. (0bf6ca973)
I still haven’t found how to fix that..
Fixed with 6cdeab9c1
I still haven’t found how to fix that..
For me it works with:
OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15519 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 7e80a1f64ecdf6a190bd8fe28169676fd7b5f3fe
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.0.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)
I can confirm the Start workbench loads and displays correctly now on Py2/Py3/Q4/Qt5 builds. On Py2/Qt4 (version: 4.8.7) the translated text in the Start workbench tab can still be garbled, depending on the language/characters set/used.
P.S. I noticed if you are in another workbench and use the Start workbench to create a new document. Or to open an existing file from the Recent files list. After such action Start workbench always gets activated.
Fixed in 1a7d3d9a3
3h left of 2018 in my local time, happy new year and thank you for contributing to the best open source cad software. You are changing the world, line by line 
Thanks! Already translated.
Kurt just upgraded the Ubuntu 18.04/18.10 freecad-daily packages to Qt 5, and there is no encoding issue anymore with the Start page tab label. As triplus said, it may be Qt 4 specific…
Happy New Year to you too!
Kurt just upgraded the Ubuntu 18.04/18.10 freecad-daily packages to Qt 5, and there is no encoding issue anymore with the Start page tab label. As triplus said, it may be Qt 4 specific…
As said above when switching to French and opening the Start page the tab is displayed correctly. The system is Windows 7 and Qt4. With Qt5 I couldn’t test it because I don’t have the QtWebkit module there.
on my qt4 version it displays the same problem as Normand. But on qt5 apparently everything is fine for everybody, so probably not worth putting much effort into this…
I think it’s been mentioned here somewhere in this 28-page long topic, but I really, really miss the old Qt 4 color picker!!! 
In Qt 5, its usability has considerably plummeted. 
Do you think there’s any way to get the original color picker back?
Time to update these, guys!
src/Main/MainCmd.cpp
const char sBanner[] = "(c) Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2018\n"\
src/Main/MainGui.cpp
const char sBanner[] = "\xc2\xa9 Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2018\n"\
src/Main/FreeCADGuiPy.cpp
App::Application::Config()["CopyrightInfo"] = "\xc2\xa9 Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2018\n";
Just stumbled upon this: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcolordialog.html#details
Why doesn’t the color chooser in FreeCAD look like the one in the Qt5 doc, which looks identical to what FreeCAD/Qt4 has?
One thing is crystal clear, @NormandC is at the verge of doing his first PR and becoming a full-fledged FreeCAD developer…
Personally I would vote for changing this text to something like this:
(c) Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer and the FreeCAD community 2001-2019
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Thanks Werner! I didn’t know the stripped down color chooser was the native one rather than the Qt one… Considering I’m using GNOME Shell, I should have known better 
Funny, but that won’t happen anytime soon as long as there is no clear “Making PRs for dummies” step-by-step summary. The topic about it is too damn long and confusing for someone who still struggles with Git like me.
Friendly reminder, there have been a few modified and some new text strings (in Part wb) added in the past week, so they’ll have to be uploaded to Crowdin then translated. I think text strings should not change anymore, what will be missing are of course the FEM menu entries in Crowdin, unless you find the solution…
Thanks!
Over the Holidays I proofread the French translations for Part, PartDesign and Sketcher, I left just a few strings I was not sure about. Didn’t have time for other workbenches, I must admit I’d have no clue for Path and FEM.
Ok, doing a crowdin upload/download cycle now
The credits page in the about dialog is updated.