Re: Using Windows Language Portal for IDE string translation

2018-04-04 16:58 GMT-03:00 <[email protected]>:
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> Why expend effort for on-the-fly translation of technical documents when
> people can just as easily copy and paste into an online translation service
> like Google Translate or Bing Translator? You say it's easier, but it's not
> without maintenance cost: it requires adding a new program to our
> product/toolchain, and then maintaining its integration cross-platform. In
> addition, you'd have to make sure that certain technical terms like the
> names of methods and classes, the names of arguments and variables, and
> other technical terms are not translated.
>

Yep, you are right, I was thinking more in a quark way and because changes
have to propagate to the other languages, but individually is the same.


> What do you think about performing a sloppy automated translation once as
> a starting point for human translators?
>

I would have to read the original and the translation and compare them step
by step, if it is good can save some time, emphasis on 'if'.