[haiku-commits] Re: r40922 - in haiku/trunk: headers/private/locale src/apps/deskbar src/kits/locale src/kits/tracker
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:10:19 +0100
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> So in reverse, you'd be fine with your applications having Chinese
> names
> (in, say, traditional Chinese script) with German or English
> descriptions as
> tool tips? I surely wouldn't find that particularly user friendly.
[...]
> Mmh, I thought that was obvious: It has to be at least transcribed.
> If we
> want to provide a fully localized experience to users, pretty much
> everything has to be marked for translation and the translators have
> to
> decide in which cases an actual translation or a transcription is
> needed.
Since you acknowledge that transcription is a valid solution here, why
shouldn't it be applied to WebPositive as well?
As you write, it should be in the translator's responsibility to decide
which route to take.
Bye,
Axel.
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