[jboss-as7-dev] Thoughts on i18n

[Nicklas Karlsson]

I prefer to use English everywhere (OS, telephone etc). I18N is fine for
end-user interfaces but I consider the AS an "expert tool" so in 95% of
cases, people who don't understand English probably aren't qualified to
fiddle around with it ;-) Most languages have sucky translations for
technical terms (and only people from the National Language Institute or
whoever invented them use them)

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Heiko Braun <hbraun at redhat.com> wrote:

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> I am currently going through the console, preparing it for i18n.
> Basically making sure everything is properly placed into bundles that can
> be translated.
>
> There is one thing I need your feedback on:
> How are we going to treat strings that reflect technical terms?
>
> I.e. a log handler has an editable field name (speaking of the UI here)
> called "Auto Flush".
> To me this represent a technical term that corresponds with other places
> like the XML schema, the CLI and the actual XML configuration files. As
> such, I objecting to translate those. "Log Level" is another good example.
>
> Now, to many native english speaking people, this might not be obvious,
> but once you start translating those things get pretty awkward. IMO
> technical terms should stay untouched and I expect people to incorporate
> those easily into their own language. As a result the web management
> interface would keep english terms for elements that derive from the XML
> schema or other API and provide localized description and help texts for
> anything else.
>
>
> What are you thoughts on this?
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> Heiko Braun
> Senior Software Engineer
> JBoss by Red Hat
> http://about.me/hbraun
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