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Subject: Re: raising the bar in language support

Re: raising the bar in language support

From: Manuel Dejonghe <limbus_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:04:29 +0200

On 6/29/05, BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net> wrote:
>
> >>With that, strings could be #ifdef-ed like code, depending on features
> >>and hardware limitations instead of model names.
> >
> >Yes, but it would not fix all the problems and would make the language
> >files rather hostile to non-technical people (which translators often are).
>
> Why not work as a team?
> Get the "native speaker" to do the translation and send it as a plain text
> file.
> Then get a "techie" to type it in.
>

This is actually what happened for my last french submission. I asked
for two terms I wasn't sure on the french mailing list. Looks like I'm
not a native french speaker anymore :-/

manuel

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