Re: svn commit: r823903 - /ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml

[Adrian Crum]

Jacques,

Thank you for staying on top of this. One small request though... could 
you move the large red warning to the Text Translation page?

http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/HSM

It seems to me it would be more appropriate there.

-Adrian

Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Done, I have

1) put a link to 
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBTECH/Internationalization from FAQ
2) added there a link to 
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Tips+for+UI+labels+translation
3) put also a warning explaining it's far better to translate sentences 
than words...

Thanks

Jacques

Author: jleroux
Date: Sat Oct 10 17:47:47 2009
New Revision: 823903

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=823903&view=rev
Log:
Better French translation, but actually this post is more to speak 
about the problems we get when we cut sentences and try to use words 
in translation.

For instance in French, German, Russian, etc.,  all words have a 
gender (masculine or feminine, not only neutral as in English), 
actually most languages derived from indo-european language have words 
gender (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender)

As an example : forecast, which is neutral in English, is feminine in 
French (most words gender are arbitrary, but it's not the point). So 
when you get something like ${uiLabelMap.CommonCreateNew} 
${uiLabelMap.SfaSalesForecast} you are caught in all languages where 
forecast has a gender :/

Please take this into account because it's much harder afterward to fix.

I will try to post something for contributors in wiki. If you see a 
related point please chime in

Thanks

Modified:
   ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml

Modified: ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml?rev=823903&r1=823902&r2=823903&view=diff 

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--- ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml 
(original)
+++ ofbiz/trunk/applications/marketing/config/MarketingUiLabels.xml 
Sat Oct 10 17:47:47 2009
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@
    </property>
    <property key="PageTitleFindSalesForecast">
        <value xml:lang="en">Find Sales Forecast</value>
-        <value xml:lang="fr">Recherche de prévision des ventes</value>
+        <value xml:lang="fr">Recherche de prévision de ventes</value>
        <value xml:lang="it">Ricerca previsioni di vendita</value>
        <value xml:lang="zh">查找销售预测</value>
    </property>
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@
    </property>
    <property key="PageTitleLookupSalesForecast">
        <value xml:lang="en">Lookup Sales Forecast</value>
-        <value xml:lang="fr">Consulter la prévision des ventes</value>
+        <value xml:lang="fr">Consulter la prévision de ventes</value>
        <value xml:lang="it">Ricerca previsioni di vendita</value>
        <value xml:lang="zh">查找销售预测</value>
    </property>
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@
    </property>
    <property key="SfaAddSalesForecastDetail">
        <value xml:lang="en">Add Sales Forcast Detail</value>
-        <value xml:lang="fr">Ajouter le détail de la prévision des 
ventes</value>
+        <value xml:lang="fr">Ajouter le détail de la prévision de 
ventes</value>
        <value xml:lang="it">Aggiungi dettagli previsioni di 
vendita</value>
        <value xml:lang="zh">æ·»åŠ é”€å”®é¢„æµ‹ç»†èŠ‚</value>
    </property>
@@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@
    </property>
    <property key="SfaListSalesForecastDetail">
        <value xml:lang="en">List Sales Forecast Details</value>
-        <value xml:lang="fr">Liste des détails de prévision des 
ventes</value>
+        <value xml:lang="fr">Liste des détails de prévision de 
ventes</value>
        <value xml:lang="it">Lista dettagli previsioni di vendita</value>
        <value xml:lang="zh">销售预测细节列表</value>
    </property>
@@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@
    </property>
    <property key="SfaSalesForecast">
        <value xml:lang="en">Sales Forecast</value>
-        <value xml:lang="fr">Prévision des ventes</value>
+        <value xml:lang="fr">Prévision de ventes</value>
        <value xml:lang="it">Previsioni di vendita</value>
        <value xml:lang="zh">销售预测</value>
    </property>