Re: Using Windows Language Portal for IDE string translation

2018-04-05 23:50 GMT-03:00 Lucas Samaruga <[email protected]>:

> 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.
>

And I would really like to have the documentation translated to Spanish, so
if you came up with a solution to commit translations I'll commit myself to
the task (and hope more people will join because is extensive). If it
happens that I'm idle from the mailing list or github just forward me the
call.