RE: [Freecats-Dev] Re: Freecats-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 11

[Thierry Sourbier]

localizable = anything that can be changed when the document/software/etc. is 
adapted for another country.

For example:
- A image in an HTML page can be appropriate for one country but not another.
- A font might be appropriate for a language but not another.
- Dialogs typically need resizing after translation, so dialog coordinates are 
localizable.

You see how localization goes beyond translation... Why do we need to care?

Say that you translate an HTML page from English to Greek and then go through 
the effort of updating all the links, image path and font information to make 
it look perfect. The day before shipping your clients sends you an updated 
English file with just some minor design change, you pass it through the TM and 
you can recover all your translation but you've lost all the other changes :(.

I hope my comment are a bit more clear. My comment was originaly send in French 
to Henri only.

T.


 

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Dave Simons
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Subject: [Freecats-Dev] Re: Freecats-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 11




>Whatever you planned, it might prove useful to extract ALL localizable
>data, in a broad sense:
>colour, dimension, font name, image file path, etc. (the same for a .RC
>file)
>This, even if the "pure" translator is not really concerned by these
>rather technical points, it would greatly help to be able to retrieve
>these localized items when updates come. Of course, these data should
>not be included in word counts...
>
>Well, my answer is, why not, later on, if somebody volunteers ;-)
>
>Henri

Extract all localizable data from what? to do what with it?
What have colour, dimension, font name, etc. to do with localization?
Have I misunderstood the use of the term "localizable" here?
What is meant by "retreiving localized items when there are updates"?
Updates to what? Doing what with the items when they are retrieved?

Does it sound like I'm lost here?

Dave



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