bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: > Hi List, > > I wrote a proposal for th nameing scheme to be used for translating > expand on the text in Help:Translating. > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:B_Michaelsen/Translation_Proposal > > Comments welcome. I would suggest to merge the text into > Help:Translating if nobody objects (or create a page > "Help:TranslatingAdvanced", because otherwise it might scare away > newbies).
Some good points in that page. I'm thinking that in [[XX/Main Page]], the "Main Page" part should be the localized title... ie not actually "Main Page" but the translated/localized text for "Main Page" (as the Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese etc communities have done). This also applies in some ways to the Page Name part as well. There has been some discussion about translated Page Names being in English or localized. For a Wiki document like the Developer's Guide, this is important because the translations are done page by page. It makes it somewhat easier to keep these particular Wiki manuals in sync. Outside of that opinion is split. Some people feel the page should be left with its English original name and localized using DISPLAYTITLE. Others feel that the Page Name itself needs to be localized as well. For me, from a technical maintenance standpoint, it's certainly easier if the page name is left in English and the difference between each language is just the ISO Lang code. it makes it very easy to switch between languages. On the other side is something like this example: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/How_Tos/Calc:_functie_BOOGCOS where a localized title was used (and needed in my opinion). I'm not sure what the right answer is here... to me.. some places need it for administrative reasons, but elsewhere, it's not so important to have the Page Name only in English... and then localized Page Names make sense. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
