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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: kbabel in kde4
From:       mvillarino <mvillarino () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-08-14 7:34:07
Message-ID: 200708140934.53854.mvillarino () gmail ! com
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O Luns, 13 de Agosto de 2007 18:25, Chusslove Illich escribiu:>
> Hence, I consider these "advanced" features more of malfeatures. Precisely
> due to such kludges, I think that, say, translation memory (which I've
> heard is usually considered an in-house bussines secret) and variants of
> auto/ assisted-translation are of great importance in commercial CATs --
> they simply cannot make assumption on the sanity of the environment outside
> their reach, or that translators could take action to influence it.

But this advanced features are great!, and they where -almost- available due 
to the kbabeldict, with it's translation database and kbabel, with the rough 
translation.
Here, the malfeatured are not those functionalities, but we --kde l10n 
project- not taking full advantage out of them: i've been on this for some 
two years, and all that time long, I've had no mean to query a translation 
corpus, nor build up a glossary, two thing that are essential (together with 
sharing it).
In this sense, the means are out there (consider open-tran, logosdictionary, 
and proz(.com), for instance), but not integrated for this particular 
purpose.

>
> I think that our specialized tools should be much, much more focused on the
> strength of having code freely available, and programmers and other
> language teams working in cooperation as a norm. To have tools which will
> make easy for an action taken by one translator (such as something to do
> with contexts) to spread as far as generally useful, to other language
> teams and programmers.

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Best regards
MV
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