Re: [pebble-user] Localization

[Olaf K. <ok...@ab...>]

Yusuke Yamamoto schrieb:
> I can do Japanese translation. ;)
> --  
> Yusuke Yamamoto
> yu...@ma...
> 
> On 2008/11/17, at 19:18, aza...@ja... wrote:
> 
>> Olaf,
>> about help texts - what did we decide?
>> Will we be translating them also?
>>
>> If yes, i can prepare Russian version.

Hi,

no decision yet. Some options are:

1)
help/en/plugins.jsp
help/ru/plugins.jsp
help/de/plugins.jsp

or

2)
resources.properties and resources_*.properties contain help

3)
provide localized and translated help on one page, making it possible to
compare both versions if readers are capable of both languages and
prefer their own language.

pro 1: help contains some elements that are dynamic. Also, it contains
prose text, that is best maintained in a suitable format, e.g. complete
pages.
contra 1: it's not obvious, if a page has been changed so that it needs
update in other languages too.

pro 2: Additions in help texts could be phrased as new properties in the
resource files, making it obvious that some english content is not yet
translated (requires organization by paragraph in resources.properties)
contra 2: I don't like editing prose text in resource format. It's
uncomfortable enough with labels and headings.

pro 3: All information visible
contra 3: Feels somewhat artificial. Not pretty

There are certainly other possibilities, I currently would like to
balance obvious necessity to translate certain parts with ease of
handling the translation, as the later will influence on how much the
translations will drift apart once the english one (or the most popular
ones) are changed.

Comments? Please discuss.

Cheers,
Olaf