Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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BTW, one possible solution I was thinking of was to do this through
the wiki; just upload a set of partial translations and let
people at it.  That way anyone who wants to translate a few
messages can do so...

- --j.


Daniel Quinlan writes:
> John Wilcock <jo...@tradoc.fr> writes:
> 
> > OK, I hadn't realised this was simply intended as help for human 
> > translators. As you say, some are usable more or less directly and some 
> > are total gibberish. Speaking with my professional translator's hat on, 
> > I wouldn't use this method personally - too much risk of being led 
> > astray from the right translation by babelfish's inconsistent attempts, 
> > and too many words that are translatable in other contexts but actually 
> > need to remain in English here. Each unto his own, though; some of the 
> > volunteer translators may indeed find this tool useful.
> 
> In the output, we could interleave each translated line with the English
> version.  That might make it useful enough:
> 
> ------- start of cut text --------------
> #describe ACCESSDB		Message would have been caught by accessdb
> lang fr ACCESSDB	Le message aurait �t� attrap� par l'accessdb
> 
> #describe ACT_NOW_CAPS		Talks about 'acting now' with capitals
> lang fr ACT_NOW_CAPS	Parle de l''action maintenant 'avec des capitaux
> 
> #describe ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT	To: address appears in Subject
> lang fr ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT	: l'adresse appara�t dans le sujet
> 
> #describe ADDR_FREE            From Address contains FREE
> lang fr ADDR_FREE	De l'adresse contient LIBREMENT
> ------- end ----------------------------
> 
> Daniel
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