[sldev] Futzing with SNOW-93 (autotranslate) today

[Melinda Green]

My first thought as I began to read your idea for automated UI 
translation was "Ugh, the results will be terrible", but then when you 
described your idea of using the existing UI translations to improve the 
quality, I find that I'm intrigued. How did you come up with the idea? 
Had you seen something like it used elsewhere? It's really quite clever. 
The results don't even need to be that great to be useful. Software that 
I can't read is pretty much useless to me, so as long as the results are 
not completely terrible, even modest results would be way better than 
nothing.

-Melinda

Nexii Malthus wrote:
> That does bring a thought though, could the User Interface strings be 
> able to be translated into unknown/unsupported languages? Would just 
> need to send all english strings and converted into target language 
> once. It would be cool, seems a bit over the top though. One could 
> ensure accuracy of 'context' by converting several supported languages 
> into target unknown language and comparing the words for which is the 
> most likely word by which word was the most returned.
>
> - Nexii
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com 
> <mailto:robla at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I'm futzing around with SNOW-93 today (the translation patch).  A
>     couple of suggestions for changing the API:
>     1. Change "lljson" to "llstringtrans" ("lltranslate" is already
>     taken.)
>     2. Change " LLJSON::parseGoogleTranslate" to
>     "LLStringTrans::remoteStringTranslate"
>
>     One comment that Techwolf made was: "Please remember to update the
>     patch cmake files to look for system or LL supplied libraries for
>     STANDALONE and NOT STANDALONE".  I'm hoping someone here can make a
>     "FindJsonCpp.cmake" file to help out with that effort.
>
>     https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-93
>
>     Rob
>