On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:13:46PM -0000, mydarkspoon wrote:
> For example, I have a label that displays "Search all images on Flickr".
> The label text is disassembled into "Search {scope} {mediaType} on
> {Flickr}". for instance, this phrase can be "Search your videos on
> Youtube"
> The ResourceManager can supply a good solution for using another
> language for these words, yet, language like German uses different part
> of speech order (I'm not speaking German so I might be wrong, sorry).
> Since I don't know German, but just to demonstrate what I mean in a
> fictional language I just made, the words order is "Videos your search
> Youtube on" (of course wit hthe appropriate translation).
>
> A good solution could be a binding template that would come with the
> locale file, but I couldn't find any existing solution to enable that.
>
> Has anyone came across with this problem ?
Typically, the entire phrase has to be translated in order to read properly.
Splitting phrases into words, then translating the words
individually, and then reassembling the phrase will result in a poor
translation in almost any language other than the app's native language.
-Jeff
