Re: WXP interface translation

"Metallo" <doriawar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I use WXP PRO in English, sometimes I need to do some work on the PC of my
father in law who is Dutch and has a Dutch version of WXP PRO.
My Dutch is not good enough for technical stuff and was wondering if there
is an application that could make my task easier, basically I am looking
for something that simultaneously translate, for example, "Eigenschappen"
into "Properties".

Thank you

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Alex

One thing that you might note is that often, the sequence of menu items or
dialog buttons does not change due to localization. For example, a
"properties" entry for a given window may always be, say, the fifth item
down. And the "OK" , "Cancel" and "Apply" dialog buttons are in the same
place regardless of language; this applies to other items within the
dialogs.

The text strings are translated, the dialogs and menus aren't re-created in
any order other than the original. Some companies keep this in mind when
creating software, and keep the text strings in specific modules that can be
easily changed and recompiled, perhaps separately, significantly reducing
the cost of localization and the testing it requires.

I worked, for a large software company, next to a localization group that
relied on this for testing software in the dozens of available OS languages,
which they didn't speak or read. They always had an English system
nearby to verify what was actually (or supposed to be!) at a given location.

HTH
-pk


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