Dev - Glossary for consistent translation

Posted by Guido Amarilla on May 28, 2006; 6:32am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-Glossary-for-consistent-translation-tp168219.html

When I was translating .properties files I found that many words have
not direct translation in my language (spanish) and that they may been
translated in different ways. I noticed that if I adopt a translation
other translator may not agree whit the word I choosed, or that I may
translate them inconsitently in different applications.

In order to avoid these problems I am making a glossary with those
controversial words, where I write the translation and a small
description of why I choosed it and why I didn´t choose other possible
translations.
For example:

Solicitation=Contactar. Por ejemplo en "Allow Solicitation" sería
"Permitir que lo contactemos" o "¿Podemos contactarlo?". No Solicitar,
y menos solicitación o solicitud.

I created a file called glossary.properties with all these words and
the spanish translation is in glossary_es.properties. If other
translators in other languages find it useful, I think we could put it
in SVN or in one of Ofbiz Web Sites.


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Guido Amarilla

Córdoba
Argentina
 
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