Hi,
Thanks for your input, Grégory ! All the more because my French is a
mix between French from France and Canada. True, we share the same
language in theory, but we just don't agree on what english words are
to be kept. (As a sidenote, I often say that the difference between
the two variants is that in France, "On se gare dans un parking" and
in Québec "On se park(que) dans un stationnement").
I won't be going very far in terms of discussing points where we
share the same approach, but let's continue in some others.
- "Checkbox" and "Select box" (the html <input type="checkbox" /
>, or <select><option>). I've no precise idea, so I'd leave as is.
What's the context? Maybe something like "Case à cocher" and
"(Boite de) sélection" ?
The context where I found them is the Samples:form dialogs, where one
can insert such HTML elements as paragraphs.
In context, "Case à cocher" sounds pretty straightforward to anyone
without experience, whereas people with any (Web)UI culture will
prefer CheckBox.
As for the select box, I've personnaly always called them "Menu Pop
Up", but that's just me. "Boîte de sélection" is not straightforward
to me. But I've just remembered "menu déroulant".
Translating in the Samples templates/dialogs/paragraphs strings
(standard users oriented) seems right, but I'll be carrefull if I
encounter them somewhere else.
[Long part on accents for capitalized letters]
Sorry, just thought that level of nitpicking was somewhat funny :p)
Actually, it is kind of fun (me asking, and your friend actually
knowing this to such an extent).
Consistency a must. (but you'll probably see that *in fact* we
haven't been strict ;))
Well, I've now translated the missing strings that I am sure about,
and started a 2nd pass to correct incoherences, but that's obviously
the long part of the job.
Anyway, anyone feel free to report anything or comment on the subject.
Guillaume.
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