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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What about a glossary (was: Re: [Wish] Title,
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2007-01-30 1:11:50
Message-ID: 200701300111.50764.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk
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On Monday 29 January 2007 22:17:20 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 23:10, schrieb David Jarvie:
> > The idea I had in mind was that translators would add a string to the
> > list whenever they came across one that was ambiguous in their language.
> > So compilation of the list of strings would be manual. Detection of these
> > ambiguous strings in actual code would be automatic, by Krazy.
>
> Such a glossary would be very good, not only for ambiguous english terms,
> but in general. Developers, who often are not native english speakers and
> in need for a matching english term, so the other way round, could have a
> look there, too.
> I would also help as reference for consistent naming in the ui, cmp.
> e.g. "folder" vs. "directory".
>
> Do any translation teams use a glossary at all? I could not find a
> reference at l10n.kde.org.

Glossaries might well be useful, but the proposed list of ambiguous English 
translatable strings is a separate idea. As I have proposed, that list would 
ideally be referenced by Krazy, whereas glossaries wouldn't be.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html
 
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