[DUG] Translations

[Jeremy Coulter]

Thanks for that David, I will check it out.

Jeremy

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Brennan
<dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz>wrote:

>  We use Gnu GetText for Delphi. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxgettext/and
> http://dxgettext.po.dk/Home
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> It includes tools for extracting strings from constants, translate calls
> and dfms and producing .po files which are then edited using poedit.
> Wouldn't say it is perfect, we haven't tried anything else outside of a bit
> of testing so I can't really compare. However we have it beaten into shape
> now and it doesn't require replacing everything with resource strings (we
> have rather large apps with 5000+ strings in them!).
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> Cheers,
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> David.
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Coulter
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 February 2009 7:16 a.m.
> *To:* 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Translations
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> So are you saying that Multilser actually DID the conversion? i.e. you
> clicked a button and it went an did a translation for you?
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> Jeremy
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> *On Behalf Of *Vikas...
> *Sent:* 16 February 2009 22:39
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Translations
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> Hi Jeremy,
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> Well i have done the translation of my Application from English to french.
> Basically what i did was i moved all the strings to resource files. And then
> used Multilser to does the converstion.
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> Yeah sometiems it gives weired meaning when i tried converting to languages
> like Hebrew .
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> But It For french it worked alright for me.
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> And to convert to resource string model maker proved handy too for me..
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> Cheers
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> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I noticed that one of the apps. also works with ReportBuilder which we use
> a for reporting.
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> I think this is going to be a bit of a task.
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> We didnt think we woudl be going outside the english language market, but
> things change :-)
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> I guess the argument some would make is "you should be using
> ResourceStrings anyway" and they would be right, however...nothing like
> being a bit lazy now and then and hardcoding your txt ;-)
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> Jeremy
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Barker
> *Sent:* 16 February 2009 21:51
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> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
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> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Translations
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> Hi Jeremy,
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> I had to translate a small app last year into Dutch and German and just
> created some ini files one for each language, with name/value pairs of words
> and phrases in them. The main app ini specifies which language to use at
> runtime. For this app we were mainly only asked to translate the data and
> the reports, not so much the UI. It didn't take long at all to do this way
> for a small app.
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> Steve
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> *From:* Jeremy Coulter [mailto:jscoulter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, 16 February 2009 8:54 p.m.
> *To:* 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> *Subject:* [DUG] Translations
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> Hi All.
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> I Think this has been a subject a few times before, but unfortunitly I
> didnt really retain anything about it because it didnt apply at the
> time.....hehehe...and of course now it does :-)
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> I have had a requst to translate my application from English to German,
> then to French maybe.
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> I downloaded the trial of Sisulizer and Multilizer with the, as it now
> turns out, misunderstanding that they did the translation, when infact they
> only appear to give you a list of the strings in your app and a column for
> you to put the translations into or export the strings into a file that you
> send off somewhere.
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> I thought to myself, if thats all, then why dont I just use resource
> strings and Googlaes translation tool?
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> The specifics of grammer etc. from the translation will be done by someone
> anyway, so thats not an issue.
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> I am keen to know what others do in this situation.
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> Also, does anyone use any online translation companies that you send your
> words too and they do the translations?
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> Thanks, Jeremy
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