Aug 22

Written by: Renegade
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Goodness gracious I'm sick of just the silliest things you've ever seen...

A Hint: If you're a web developer trying to get a web application translated... Don't start by putting marketing copy in string tables and expecting anyone to understand them when you send your translator an Excel file.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're using Excel to try and translate things, then you're doing something fundamentallly wrong. Excel is not a translation tool.

Let's quickly go over this... Excel is what? A spreadsheet. What are spreadsheets for? Calculations. Are spreadsheets for documents? No. Is a spreadsheet a translation tool? No. Any questions?

String tables are bad enough to translate as you lose the context for the string. But at lest with a string table and other resources you can perhaps piece things together. (Best to have real source code of course, or something VERY similar...)

Here's a hint... Develop your web applications in .NET, then get Globalizer.NET from Infralution and do things right. The translation quality will be MUCH higher and you'll waste less time.

Sigh...

Ryan

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