[haiku-i18n] Re: Improving while localizing strings
- From: meanwhile@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:31:15 -0500
I'd say have the discussions done here, but at the same time I think the
original English wording is good enough and I'm therefore not really looking
forward to changing/messing things up.
What amount of changes are you talking about, could you give an estimate?
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From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: i18n <haiku-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 6:39 pm
Subject: [haiku-i18n] Improving while localizing strings
Hi there!
In the course of GCI tasks doing German localization at HTA, I looked
over the work and found a few things that should be corrected/improved
in the English original. Since we're gearing up to validate the German
localizations, I imagine we'll find more of this kind.
It looks like changing the English original in the source code (even if
it's just adjusting casing or typos) will invalidate (delete?) already
translated strings in all languages. Right?
Or will the old translation be kept at least, so you wouldn't have to
translate the whole string again, but only the possibly minimal change
(if it impacts the translation at all).
I know that the User Guide tool just marks something fuzzy (and even
that can be overridden, if e.g. it was just a fix relevant to the
English original). Is there similar functionality with HTA?
In any case, what do you guys think about using the localization effort
as opportunity to correct mistakes, improve the wording and standardize
some strings across all apps? Everything will of course be discussed
here first. (Or should the discussions be done at haiku-development
since not many devs are subscribed here and some might care very much
about the wording in the GUI.)
Regards,
Humdinger
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