Hi Mathias,
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Ivo Hinkelmann wrote:
Hi Frank,
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Today, the process for new strings involves specifying both the germany
and the english string in the spec document, and writing them into the
.src (done by the developer). If the german string is not to be entered
at source-level anymore, how would this work? Would only the english
string be specified, and the german version is part of the usual
translation process?
Yes why not! To handle German as a usual translation language has a lot
of benefits:
- In a international open source project having German source language
strings looks a bit strange to me ( and confuse non German speaking
developers a lot )
- There is only one "truth" . Imagine you have two strings where en-US
and de translation does not match. What is the "real" one ? We already
had such cases.
Usually the german text is the "real one" because most people creating
but this may not always be the case. For (fictive) example:
ModalDialog DLG_GREEN_LINE
{
HelpID = HID_YELLOW_LINE ;
OutputSize = TRUE ;
SVLook = TRUE ;
Size = MAP_APPFONT ( 239 , 68 ) ;
/* XYZ: 1.6.1998: Die Linie ist jetzt orange! */
Text [ en-US ] = "Black line" ;
Text [ de ] = "Grüne Linie" ;
Moveable = TRUE ;
....
and the developer has left the company 4 years ago...
the UI specs are native german speakers and we usually need a native
english speaker to create useful english texts.
So IMHO we still need the german strings in the specifications. The only
alternative is to have native english speakers writing the specification
part dealing with the strings, but that is unlikely to happen.
Ok, I see it is better to have the German strings in the spec. My aim is
to get that string straight into the database and to get the resource
files plain en-US. If there exits tooling like a web database interface
that should not hamper the specification process too much.
Cheers,
Ivo
This change is good for building the code but it is not well prepared
IMHO because it creates problems for the specification process.
Ciao,
Mathias
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