2010/11/1 Jorge González González <[email protected]>: > >> There's no automatic way to split errors from the GUI strings, so >> it'll be a huge amount of work for programmers (and require sustained >> maintenance work), while the benefit to translators is not significant >> IMHO. But I'd really like to see all the useless schema strings >> separated out. > IMHO error and schema strings should not be translated. Whenever I try > to find help in Spanish when a software crashes, I usually get few or > null feedback from the error in Spanish (in my case), but tones of pages > and websites when I paste the same error in English into Google.
What are error messages then? 'Illegal move' in chess should definitely be translated. 'Could not connect to server' should be translated also. A message about not being able to access some file should also be translated. I don't think there are a lot of errors where it makes sense to keep them in English. > And the normal user will never search for those errors, only advanced > users, so I guess we're not helping them much translating error and > schema messages. > > Besides, I bet there are hundreds of strings in GNOME that the final > user will NEVER, ever see. Thousands, most of which we'll get rid of by separating out the schemas. Regards Ask _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
