SV: [Phpwebsite-developers] French Language, general translation woes !

[Frits J. <FJ...@uv...>]

This is why I stopped the Danish translation project I started - I'm
observing the project as of now, because it would be way wierd translated -
wouldnt want my name on it ;) I Know its a lot to ask, but a REM of where
the translated phrase would appear also is kinda necessary for a proper
translation. Often a sentence can mean very different things, depending on
the context it is in, so to be given a phrase alone to translate eventually
will produce some wierd resoults. Frits.

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Christian Schims [mailto:chr...@sc...]
> Sendt: 2. april 2001 13:52
> Til: php...@li...
> Emne: Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] French Language, general translation
> woes !
> 
> 
> Alain Fontaine wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Today I wanted to correct a few mistakes in the french 
> translation of
> > phpWebSite, but I have stopped quite quickly after I have 
> found a major
> > problem with the current translation system. The problem I 
> am describing
> > happens on a lot of different places actually, but to give 
> you an easy to
> > understand example:
> 
> Hi Alain,
> 
> it's right the same problem with the german translation. Additionally
> lots of phrases and commands are not translated when the distro files
> are generated, although the language file contains all 
> information. For
> instance most day and month names still are in english - not 
> only in the calendar.
> 
> Due to different syntactical rules in different languages the actual
> language file is no good option. It would be much better to 
> use complete
> phrases containing all needed variables, so you can put them in the
> sentence, where you need them. This would make all translations much
> easier to handle and could avoid some very strange expressions and
> phrases I had to use in the german translation.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Chris
> 
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