[sldev] i8n and patches

[Leyla Farazha]

Hi,

If you submit a patch that modifies the UI all you have to do is modify
the English version (en-us).  We have a separate process in place to detect
changes and create a list of what needs to be translated before the next
release.  We haven't had a translation iteration since making the
baseline so you'll notice that the translations are a few releases behind.
But once we iron out the details the translations will at the most only be
one release behind.

Help with the translation process is always welcome, and once we have
set up the pipeline for that work we'll let you all know. :-)

Thanks!
Leyla



alissa_sabre at yahoo.co.jp wrote:
>> If we submit a patch that requires new UI copy, what should we do about 
>> the various languages?
>>     
>
> If I were the submitter, I would include as many language versions as
> I can translate and put some note saying which language versions are
> out-of-sync.
>
> I expect that if my patch attracted other developpers' attension,
> someone else would write missing language versions.
>
>   
>> Use a machine translation?
>>     
>
> No.  Please don't do it.  I don't expect it produces usable result...
> Or, you can attach machine-translated version with a clear
> indication.  Broken translation might be better than nothing...
>
>   
>> Submit and let LL handle translation?
>>     
>
> I believe new UI texts in community submitted patch will be translated
> just as those written by Linden developpers.  I don't know how they
> are doing it, however.
>
> Note that, at this moment, the translation come with release versions
> of the viewer is incomplete.  For example, only a third of the
> _Chinese_ UI resource has been translated.  Another third is still in
> English, and the other third is in Japanese (for whatever reason...)
>
> BTW, my native tangue is Japanese, and I found that almost 100% (about
> 95 to 98%?) of Japanse UI resource has been translated to Japanese,
> but the quality of the translation is extremely low.  Almost half of
> the translation is too cryptic and doesn't make sense...  I'm now
> talking with some Japanese speaking residents about the possibility to
> translate enteire UI into Japanese from scratch.
>
> I'm not eligible to evaluate other language versions.  How good are
> German, French, or Korean versions?
>
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