Re: [Bodington-developers] Spanish Bodington

[Paul D. <pau...@ou...>]

I've just done something I'd been promising for a while - a follow-up to
people who had received a demo CD or download.  It came to about 180 valid
names since we took over in August last year - by valid I took out
duplicates and obvious mistooks.
One response was along the lines of "It looks good, but I'd be even more
interested if it was in Spanish"

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Maber" <jo...@te...>
To: <bod...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Spanish Bodington


> Alistair Young wrote:
>
> >Thanks for your kind comments Jon :)
> >
> >
> Kind comments? Couldn't you hear the sarcastic way I typed that? ;-)
>
> >The i18n only works for xml templates though. If someone needed the whole
> >site in Spanish it would mean a lot of conversion to new style templates.
> >
> >Then again, that was one of my many jobs, to identify the most used ones
> >from the logs...
> >
> >
> Well I think the conversion of the templates would be a relatively small
> task
> compared to the job of translating.  (I've had hours of conversation
> with people
> about how to translate VLE into spanish and I don't think we ever did
> come to
> a conclusion. It's the word environment that causes the problems since the
> Spanish equivalent really only refers to outdoors envirnoments, the
climate,
> flora and fauna etc. It's debates like this that slow things down
> because the only
> proper solution is to consult people who work in this field in Spain and
> of course
> that takes time.)
>
> By the way, isn't there an automation tool for converting the templates?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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