Hello Dan, In short, a good translation is consistent. That means the same sentences are translated to the same foreign sentence. A so-called translation memory is used for that. Also terms (specific words or expressions of the domain) are translated to the same foreign term.
I think that's the idea of Stephan. There are proprietary tools to enforce this. I think launchpad translation is somehow also a translation memory as it pulls in previous translations. Though no idea how the above could be solved with FOSS tools. Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 2:36:28 AM, you wrote: DK> 2009/2/10 Stephan Richter <[email protected]>: >> On Monday 09 February 2009, Dan Korostelev wrote: >>> Nowadays, when we have a fully egg-based setup, the translations in >>> the zope.app.locales package make no sense anymore as it's very hard >>> to maintain them and it just wrong (to me at least) to have a separate >>> centralized translations package for a hundred of eggs. >> >> I think that while having a centralized translations package make no sense >> anymore, I think we should still maintain a canonical translation memory that >> serves as the authoritative translation for all packages. This provides >> consistency across packages and is the way it is done in the professional >> localization business. >> >> So basically, option (b) with option (a) as translation memory. DK> Can you explain that once more? Do you mean that we translate each DK> package in its own translation domain and then collect messages from DK> all packages to a global translation domain that is used only as a DK> translation memory and not for actual i18n of components? -- Best regards, Adam GROSZER mailto:[email protected] -- Quote of the day: She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. - Gypsy Rose Lee _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
