Re: Random grumble to anybody doing translation-work, esp. to norwegian.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:19:25 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> dijo:
> 
>>On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:19:03 +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
>>
>>> I hate it when "y/N ?" gets translated into "j/N ?", and then the
>>> proggy will not accept "j" as an answer. Only "y".
>>> 
>>> (pertains to norwegian translations).
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Then better contact the norwegian translation team¹ and share your
>>concern with them but I think this is a sort of convention for all the
>>translations teams.
> 
> The problem is not in the translation, but the program. The Norwegian
> version of the program should not just change the menus, but also change
> the code so "j" and "J" are accepted as positive answers.

(...)

The same goes for Spanish ("Y/n" is presented as "S/n"). 

But I guess this is usually specified at the ".po" files (that's why I 
suggested to contact the translation team), there are times when it can 
be translated because the routine will (or is prepare to) accept both 
inputs (English and localized strings) and there are times when only 
English is possible and translators are told to keep it in English ("Y/
n") to avoid misinterpretations by users.
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón