Strange bounces... --- On Mon, 27/2/12, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_le...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 27/2/12, Francois Gouget > <fgou...@free.fr> > wrote: > > > Patches are posted to wine-patc...@winehq.org: > > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2012-February/111804.html > > A quick look at it (it is a few hundred k) - says a few of > the problems I saw and suspected: > > - some of the changes are not improvements/corrections but > just opinionated changes > > - some changes are wrong (i.e. the older version is more > correct/natural and the change makes it worse, not better). > > - some of the changes are over-eager: i.e. it "improves" on > windows and tried to be more user-friendly, but not exactly > how windows does it. > > I think there should be a notes on the translation FAQ: one > is not looking to be "better than" windows, but > bug-for-bug-compatible. Therefore translation is preferably > what regional/localized windows (whatever version) does. > > 20% of the world's population is Chinese, I am sure it is > easy enough to do a few screenshots of localized windows (be > in traditional or simplied) and show how those behave. > > There is a definitive answer (or "definition answers") to > most of these translation strings: what localized windows > (some version) does. It is not up to individual or group > opinions, really. I mean, public libraries, etc have windows > in the far east, there is no excuse to be wrong, or on the > opposite extreme, "try to improve on windows", even if one > does not want to get one's hand dirty and own a windows > box. > > > > >