Alex Korsbakke

#1 works. I will start Danish translation shortly.

Thank you!

With that, I have now reached 100%. What is left to do is:

• Systematically navigate through all the product parts to check for correct translation and spelling (and check that long texts fit).

• Continuously translate new and changed phrases.

But I believe that the language is ready fo publish anyway.

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• UIResources.butForward_ToolTip

• Where is this used? Is it "Go forward" or "Forward message" or just direction?

• UIResources.tpSocial

• Where is this used? What does it refer to? Social life/communities? Socal security/identification number?

A wish (or two (or three)):

1) When switching language, I'll stay on the same phrase.

2) Not needing to Save before switching language.

3) Being able to switch to languages I'm not approved for (read only of course).

I hope you don't think of me as a person who nags on everything. You do a great job, but I often have ideas on how to improve.

You guys are really quick in this matter. It works. And as you can see, there are only a few phrases left in Swedish (that is if you naughty guys don't add a couple of hundreds of new ones).

The danish language however, will take sonewhat longer. It's been almost two years since I worked professionally as a translator. I'm a bit rusty. I hope I (and you?) can round up some more participants.

I also think the Swedish translation need some extra eyes. Do you know some "professional" users that would like to help?

Great!

I think it is always best if you approve and activate languages on your side. But that is really up to you.

I'd like to be activated for Danish as my next language. I'll wait with the other languages until I know I have enough time.

Swedish will be ready before Christmas Eve - Merry Christmas!

edited by Alex Korsbakke on 12/16/2013

Thanks again!

But I'll repost those questions still in need of answer:

• MsgResources.TheDataSourceEmailIsRequired - So the answer is "email address"?

• MsgResources.XYXZTransferredIn - Would I be correct to expect it to be followed by a time value?

• MsgResources.XHasInvitedYouToJoinRemoteSupportSession - Is it possible for you to separate Support Session and Meeting into two resource entries (without using {1})?

• UIResources.lblPrefix - I suspected that. But as I wrote, there are no Mr or Mrs to choose. The selection list is empty in the UI. But perhaps that is a good thing, since salutations and use of second person pluralis as form of address was formally abolished in the 1960'ies in Sweden?

• UIResources.lblTragetHostedService - I'm sorry, but You didn't fully answer my question. Is "Target" a verb (imperative)? If it is not, then "Target Hosted Service" makes no sence at all, which makes it hard to translate.

• UIResources.butEditDefaultTemplate_ToolTip

• Two trailing dots instead of three. I guess an ellipsis was the intention.

• UIResources.chkSta

• "appartment" should be "apartment"

• UIResources.FrmCompare_WizardSubTitle

• "representaion" should be "representation"

• UIResources.FrmProxySettings_WizardSubTitle

• "appropriated" should be "appropriate"

Goodie :-)

Thank you David.

• MsgResources.TheDataSourceEmailIsRequired - So the answer is "email address"?

• MsgResources.XYXZTransferredIn - If that could spell "20 files (63211233 bytes) transferred in", would I expect it to be followed by a time value?

• MsgResources.XHasInvitedYouToJoinRemoteSupportSession - This is not good. "a Session = en session" is of reale gender in Swedish, while "a Meeting = ett möte" is of neutrum gender. That requires different translations of "a". Is it possible for you to separate Support Session and Meeting into two resource entries (without using {1})?

And some new questions:

• UIResources.lblPrefix - What is this? I found it when adding a contact. It is a label in front of an empty combo dropdown.

• UIResources.lblExpiringNotification - What is this?

• UIResources.lblTragetHostedService - Is "Target" a verb? What is the context of this phrase?

• UIResources.chkUsePageant - What is the context of this phrase?

Suggestion on improvement:

Possibility to translation multiple languages

I soon want to start translate into Danish and perhaps Norwegian (bokmål) and Norwegian (nynorsk). But I don't want to leave the Swedish translation. Could you make it possible to be registerred for several languages and be able to select language on login?

Suggestion of improvement:

Possibility to sneak peek on other language's translation

Even if I wouldn't try to translate into the languages French, German or Italian. They would have clues on how to translate into my language. By being able to switch between the original language and a third language (the second being my language) I wouldn't have to change language in the application settings and restart the application all the time.

edited by Alex Korsbakke on 12/15/2013

Suggestion of improvement:

Add context information to each resource entry name

Most resources are named according to its English translation. That is not very helpful. It does not tell where or what.

Example

UIResources.resx,lblReEnter with the English translation "Re-enter".

OK, so this tells me it is probably a label and it sounds like an imperative. But where is it used and what does it tell the user to do? Does it want the user to go back into a chat room again? Or, perhaps write a certain text a second time? Is the label commonly used (like in change password dialogues) or in a specific context.

If the above example was namned WizardChangeDataSourceMasterKey_LabelMasterKeyReenter, I would have been in less doubt. If it was a commonly used label, it could be General_LabelReenterInformation. Other general translation would be General_ButtonOK, General_MenuFile, General_MenuFileExit

I know - it is a big job changing all texts throughout the product, but I think it will make it easier to translate. One can sort by context (by sorting names)

Suggestion of improvement:

Hidden feature for displaying translation resource names

Add a checkbox "Translator's mode" to the UI options. With that ticked, a translator may use some key combination to switch between selected language and system language (the latter only showing the names of translation resources). This will aid the translator in finding correct location of a translation resource within the application. Even if two resource have the exact same spelling in English, the context may very well determine the choise of words, wordforms and spelling in other languages.

UIResources.resx - lblSpaceCreationDot

Where is this used?

Can I expect a noun infront like "Item creation". That wold be bad. In swedish I must sometimer translate this into "Skapar produkt" (verb+space+noun) or "Produktskapande'' (no space and the noun+verb transformed into a noun.

Huh?

No, not really translator questions. This is rather a thread to point out english language errors.

MsgResources.resx

• NotiticationExpiringEntry & NotiticationExpiringSoftware

• "will be expire" should either be "will expire" or "will be expired"

• CleanShutdownXenServerVirtualMachine

• "perform a shutdown" should either be "perform a shutdown on" or just "shutdown"

• Similar error in CleanRebootXenServerVirtualMachine & HardShutdownXenServerVirtualMachine & HardRebootXenServerVirtualMachine

Aaaaalmost there

Now I'm on 99%. What is left, is phrases where I need som clarifications. Since the phrases often are named after its english translation, the names are not helping in understanding the purpose of a word/phrase or where it is used.

MsgResources.resx

• TheCommunityIsRequired - What "Community" and when is this message shown? My guess is that it should have been "Community string" used with SNMP.

• TheDataSourceEmailIsRequired - So, does the data source need an e-mail message or an e-mail address?

• XYXZTransferredIn - What is transferred in? Where is this used. There are no clues to what meaning the parameters have.

• XHasInvitedYouToJoinRemoteSupportSession - A remote what? There is no clue to what the {1}-parameter is.

edited by Alex Korsbakke on 12/14/2013

Almost there

Translation into swedish is currently 80% completed. But I don't think I will be ready until Christmas.

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