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Multilingual/i18n

Multilingual/i18n


Translating the untranslatable

posts: 3 Switzerland

When you use German you will see in configuration tables the value of a switch being given as 'am'.
Some diligent translator, not having a context, has translated from English 'on' to German 'am', which is basically correct if you do not know the context.

Is it really necessary to translate such strings. In my opinion translating status (on/off) or names of modules makes it more difficult to understand as the poor guy has to translate back to understand what it possibly could mean.

Of course, I know that as admin I can alway switch back to English. The point of my post: I would like to see the amount of strings to be translated reduce very much. For German, there is still some 50% of translation work not done

posts: 103 Wales

I think it is important to be able to translate everything. Where I live, it is just not acceptable to expect tiki users (and in this context I include administrators) to know or use English as well as their own language.

But I am very interested in this question of translating "untranslatable" strings.

This can be a simple difficulty of not knowing where and how a particular string is being used in its English form (the single words "file" & "post" could be a verb or noun in English, for example) but two different words are required in another language. As I understand it, this isn't currently accomodated in tiki. The reverse situation can happen too of course.

Is tikiwiki truly multilingual if it can't always be accurately translated from the English?


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