> > Norwegian comes in at 96% > > The major part missing in Norwegian is (half of) the critics > - so boring to translate...
I agree! The critics messages are probably the things that lag the most in all languages because they are so much work to translate. I discovered after I compiled the statistics that the French "translation" for the critics consisted *entirely* of empty strings. Good for the statistics, but not so good for the users. Because the statistics count number of properties rather than number of words, they are overestimating that coverage because the critics messages are so much longer than average. > > (Of course the Swedish isn't really an issue since I've never met a > > Swedish programmer who's English wasn't as good as mine). > > I would say that the same goes for Norwegians - hardly any > difference between Danish, Swedish and Norwegian talking > people when it comes to English. However, the reason I > translated ArgoUML to Norwgian was to use it in our > university college/in education. The students are good in > English, but not when it comes to technical language... That's a point that I hadn't considered, but I bet you'd find that English students aren't very strong in the technical language either (particularly for something like UML). Still the easier we can make it for students, the better. > > Which languages is it most important to have coverage for? > > French/Spanish is quite important, I guess. I was going to say Chinese and Spanish. Obviously Chinese is a lot harder than the western languages. France is curious. They seem to be fairly big UML adopters, but there's limited interest in ArgoUML (although we do/did have at least one French developer). Perhaps other tools are popular there? Leveraging Linux distributions like Debian to find translation resources is a good idea. Anyone know where to find other communities of translators? (On the other hand, the Debian distribution of ArgoUML seems to be a mess, but I'll start a separate thread about that.) Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
