On 13/11/2018 18:08, Olaf Kock wrote: > > On 13.11.18 18:12, Mark Thomas wrote: >> >>> Seems time to add some AI-translate add-on to the code. >> That is supported but it has to be paid for. That was something I was >> thinking about. I have 10k characters of free translation (POEditor uses >> either Google translate or Microsoft Automatic Translation) with my >> POEditor account. The Tomcat messages average ~67.5 characters per >> message so those free credits should be able to translate just under 150 >> messages. > > > We've been using automatic translation in Liferay for a while, but IMHO > this didn't work out well. > > Machine translations lack the context, and are rarely right (and > accurate), but typically confusing, sometimes hillarious, partly rude > and rather unhelpful. More than that: If even new terms will be > automatically translated in the future, translators will always have to > go through *everything* and identify the newly automatically translated > strings. Not fun. > > I'd recommend to not even consider it. At Liferay, which has > considerable user-facing UI, this was a quick start, that triggered > corrections once there was a wonky automatic translation. Plus, after a > while we introduced a mechanism to identify newly translated strings. > Without that, it's hard to maintain.
We do have this. POEditor will filter to show only automated translations and we can mark them as proof-read once they have been checked. Is any one willing to try this? If so, for which language? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
