[jboss-as7-dev] Thoughts on i18n

[Andrig Miller]

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> From: "Heiko Braun" <hbraun at redhat.com>
> To: "jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org Development"
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:34:17 AM
> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] Thoughts on i18n

> 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?

I think we should see what our translation team think about this, and how they handle it for things like RHEL. I think you have a very good point, but I would like to see if we have any standard practices for other products first, just to see what the experience has been. 

Andy 

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