[PD] Re: [PD-dev] Patching in Tongues: The PureData TranslationProject

[Nuno Godinho]

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 at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] 
> On Behalf Of Tim Blechmann
> Sent: quarta-feira, 14 de Dezembro de 2005 18:09
> To: \js
> Cc: Mathieu Bouchard; pd-list at iem.at; pd-dev at 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 at 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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