Re: [XNap-Commons-Devel] i18n

[Felix B. <bf...@gm...>]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 22:07, Steffen Pingel wrote:

> I have added a German translation. During the process I noticed that some
> of the strings could use some polish (mostly stuff like directory vs.
> folder)...

Did you go with "folder"? Native speakers told me that's the non-technical and 
less scaring term for users (one syllable less ;-)).

> I removed a funny call to I18n.tr() for an IllegalArgumentException in
> StringHelper:
>
>  throw new IllegalArgumentException(I18n.tr("Separator must not be
> empty"));

Funny, where was that code? 

> I don't think translating those makes sense, since the user should never be
> bothered with programming errors. For non runtime exeptions that may be
> displayed, having a translation may be useful.

Maybe one of us did it just out of the mere joy of so easily being able to do 
it :-)

> Also I am thinking about removing the tooltips from the dialog buttons in
> favour of "What's This" support.
>
> Any opinions?

We don't have that support yet, but I'd say yes, those button texts are very 
common and should be self-explanatory.

Felix
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