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Comment on How I can speed up work with my big Sisulizer project? by mwk

mwk — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:54:32 +0000

You find help about SLMake in our support forum, e.g. here: http://www.sisulizer.net/forum3/1788.html

Comment on How I can speed up work with my big Sisulizer project? by Amit

Amit — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:29:27 +0000

Are the above features available by command line also?
if there, please help.

Comment on Using of SLMake tool – add task by mwk

mwk — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:19:50 +0000

Hi Scott,

Can you please ask our support specialist in our support forum http://www.sisulizer.net. We centralized all our support power there.

Markus

Comment on Validation features for software localization by e-Learning Localization

e-Learning Localization — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:53:45 +0000

That is a nice long list of validations for software localization!

Comment on Custom API key for Google Translate service by mwk

mwk — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:11:35 +0000

We had good experience with the test localization of our German website http://www.sisulizer.de. After using an own API key it reached easily 100%. If you use the public key you share the daily amount with others. Needless to say that there is no official info about a quota. But using an own key is definitely needed to use it successfully.
In anyway machine translation is just a nice solution to get a rough preview on how a translated output might look like. We use machine translation to preview http://www.sisulizer.com in German language. Since our sales department is located in Germany we have native German speakers and we could judge the results. Parts of the machine translations had been nearly usable but most parts are simply hilarious. So everything had to be localized using a human translator (what was clear from the beginning). The machine translation was excellent to see if the localization process of the web works in general. We could see if every string was translated, scripts and program logic was still working and fine tune the paragraphs flow (since German strings are somewhat longer than the original). For this task machine translation does an incredible good and fast job. Much better than any pseudo translation can do.

But for the published web the machine translation was no option. There is no other option than a human translator – or even precise – a native speaker with localization experience.

Comment on Source language is Dutch, but I want to use another language for not translated items in my localized application by Janusz

Janusz — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:01:25 +0000

Of course, full mug of beer is better than half empty mug, but as Renate told “life is not perfect”, so developers often release not fully translated software. Solution with default language is imperfect, but usually English localization is first fully translated version and it allows avoid described above case with 3 UI languages.

Janusz

Comment on What is a BOM? by mwk

mwk — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:26:14 +0000

You are right. Especially if you want to use the header command in PHP, which has to be before any other output, a BOM can mean a nasty bug to track. Your editor will not show the BOM but PHP will complain that the header must be before any other output.

Markus

Comment on What is a BOM? by Janusz

Janusz — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:14 +0000

Generally using of BOM on Windows machines is good solution. However, using Unicode files with BOM in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment can cause some troubles. So, for Web sites/applications based on PHP, files without BOM could be better idea.

Janusz

Comment on Source language is Dutch, but I want to use another language for not translated items in my localized application by Renate

Renate — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:38:56 +0000

Hi Gert,

It is a question like if the glass of water (or beer is half full or half empty. Pooh, I have no idea if this is understandable in English.

Anyway, naturally the best option is to have everything translated in your target language. But life is not perfect.

So the second best option is to show the text at least in a language where chances are high that user may understand it, too. In our sample this was English.

And the last exit may be confusing for the user. But I believe you will agree that this is still better than showing no text at all.
Sure it is way better to prevent this situation. And yes, I agree that it is preferable to have at least in the selected second language everything translated.

Renate

Comment on Source language is Dutch, but I want to use another language for not translated items in my localized application by Gert Rijs

Gert Rijs — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:58:20 +0000

Hi Janusz,

I see one problem with this approach, namely you may now have a program showing three different languages to the user. For example, a translated program, targeting Spanish may have

English: the default language you have set
Spanish: the desired language
Dutch: the original language (for text not yet translated to English or Spanish)

This may be very confusing to customers.
Gert