Re: Using Windows Language Portal for IDE string translation

2018-04-05 12:27 GMT-03:00 <[email protected]>:

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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 8:54 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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?
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Done. I think I would use Google and then correct, I've tried some
paragraphs and they were pretty good. In time is a bit faster, mainly
because didn't need to type but seems to be better because I make mistakes
too and have to check them after.