We have major discrepancies in different language resource files. Some missing stuff like font dialog (except few buttons and text). Some have not been updated in ages.
Should we net them together adding what's missing from English resources? And set policy: if you do change resource file, change them all!
Le mer 19/10/2005 à 15:12, Vitaliy Margolen a écrit :
We have major discrepancies in different language resource files. Some missing stuff like font dialog (except few buttons and text). Some have not been updated in ages.
Should we net them together adding what's missing from English resources? And set policy: if you do change resource file, change them all!
That's usually impossible (most people don't know all the languages for which we have resource files). And adding a copy of the English strings/dialogs is counter-productive: Windows already fallbacks to English if something doesn't exist in the current locale.
I had developped a tool to verify the coverage of other locales by comparing them to English, after Dimi put together a simpler one. But it was never finished. The last person to work on it was Marcelo Duarte. The result was a set of HTML pages with colors indicating the coverage of each locales. I don't know when I'll get the time/motivation to resume work on it.
Vincent
"Vincent Béron" vberon@mecano.gme.usherb.ca wrote:
We have major discrepancies in different language resource files. Some missing stuff like font dialog (except few buttons and text). Some have not been updated in ages.
Should we net them together adding what's missing from English resources? And set policy: if you do change resource file, change them all!
That's usually impossible (most people don't know all the languages for which we have resource files). And adding a copy of the English strings/dialogs is counter-productive: Windows already fallbacks to English if something doesn't exist in the current locale.
Fallback to English doesn't help if a dialog misses controls, or have them rearranged or changed (like the text or an id). I agree with Vitaliy here, we have to ask to change all resource files simultaneously for all languages.
I had developped a tool to verify the coverage of other locales by comparing them to English, after Dimi put together a simpler one. But it was never finished. The last person to work on it was Marcelo Duarte. The result was a set of HTML pages with colors indicating the coverage of each locales. I don't know when I'll get the time/motivation to resume work on it.
That suggests that the policy to update all the language resources needs to be forced, otherwise it will lead to incomplete/bad resources which nobody maintains.
-- Dmitry.
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Vitaliy Margolen