Yes, I definitely agree that while localizing software is very useful but it must make sense.
Let's take Microsoft's example. We get Microsoft Office in Portuguese. This means that:
- Menus, tooltips and all messages are in Portuguese
- Shortcuts change because Ctrl-S (save) becomes Ctrl-G (gravar) which is a
little annoying but still understandable
- VBScript remains unchanged :)
I guess this would be the healthy approach. With one exception: Microsoft products are localized in compile time meaning once you install the portuguese version you would need to reinstall it in order to get it in English. But since PD is much smaller I'd say there is no reason to hardwire it in compile time and it can easily be implemented as a runtime option.
Bye, Nuno
-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-bounces@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces@iem.at] On Behalf Of Tim Blechmann Sent: quarta-feira, 14 de Dezembro de 2005 18:09 To: \js Cc: Mathieu Bouchard; pd-list@iem.at; pd-dev@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Re: [PD-dev] Patching in Tongues: The PureData TranslationProject
i've once seen a translated version of a programming
language ...
pretty useless if you want to share the code or even want to understand the code written in another language ...
On 12/14/05, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
Agreed, but what's your point?
um, isn't it obvious? the point seems to be that translated programming languages are useless. that's how i read it anyway ...
i'd guess it's a vote of 'no confidence' toward your new project.
translation is not a bad thing in general ... but i'd like to be able to use pd even if i sit in front of a french computer ...
t
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