Re: Using Windows Language Portal for IDE string translation

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 8:54 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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>> What do you think about performing a sloppy automated translation once as
>> a starting point for human translators?
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> 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'.
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Would you mind trying it out on an example document, maybe something like
Object or Polymorphism? Then we have a real data point to work with. :) Try
first translating a paragraph or two from Object from scratch, then try
translating the same amount of text from Polymorphism using Google
Translate as a starting point. Which is faster, and which would you
actually prefer to do for the rest of the file?

-Brian

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