Because most of the time these guys use to teach new users how to use the application and they have to remember various sets of keyboard shortcuts (this is how the problem arised from the first place - they started moaning about it)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Araoz > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Multilingual on steroids. Doh. > > On 29/10/10 02:43, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > > I have inherited an application which has multilingual interface. The guys > that originally designed the multilingual thingie are very proud of it. The > only > problem is they don’t speak any foreign language (they’re Irish). > > > > So they only speak Gaelic, no English ;c) > > > Oh well. > > > > lblRows.Caption = Transform(Reccount(“crsCursor”) + > > App.Translate(“rows”) + App.Translate(“returned.”) > > > > I will let you guess what happens when this goes translated to a different > language. > > > > And the worse thing of all is (and this is where the message subject comes > from) they have translated the menu shortcuts. At first glance seems ok. > Open… Ctrl+O for English. Deschidere… Ctrl+D for Romanian and so on. > > > > Problem is this approach f*cks up the QA guys and the power users badly, > because it changes the keyboard shortcuts and you never know what the > heck you’re supposed to press in order to bring a specific form on screen. > > > > > > I don't get it, if I were a power user I wouldn't be changing from English to > Romanian, I would use just one language (the one I'm comfortable with) and > thus learn only one set of shortcuts, the ones for the language I use. > So where would the problem be? > > > > > > > Don’t do it, guys. It is bad. > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > text/html > > --- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
