Question to our localization specialist

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org
Thu May 19 10:48:07 CEST 2011


Hello guys,

Since some of you are localization specialist, I would like to have some
advices. 

In the latest release of Scilab, a critical issue in the Polish and
Japanese localizations has been found. This causes a bad exception and
Scinotes to be unusable:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475

I was wondering if you know any tool which might check the quality of
the translation regarding the programming language.

For example, in Scilab, I will write:
myString = "I don''t known"

Some translators are not very familiar with specificities of languages.
They might think the double quote might just be a typo and remove it
from the translated string.
This is bad since it breaks the execution since the string is badly
formatted.

Do you know a tool which might here ? (it is hard for us to test Scilab
in all the languages).

Thanks,
Sylvestre




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