Hi Jérôme,
Thanks!
All the persons related to the localizations directly or indirectly are the
target audience. But the first responsibility of putting context
information lies with the developer who owns and create an application. If
s/he wants application to be localized s/he should carefully write the
context information. I remember that even the application like 'anaconda'
has no context information for any strings. So this creates a lot of
problem for translators and particularly the new translators. Anaconda is
just an example...context is although critically important but generally
ignored by developers as well as translators.
It would be good to know the proportion of the strings ie stats for strings
with context. I will check with some of the applications where context is
given importance and will write about the same.
pdf/odt: We, of FUEL project members, know the limitations. Actually we are
in the process of starting a docs section in our website and we will use
publican publishing tool for the same. Hope this will be better and more
useful.
regards,
Rajesh
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Jérôme Fenal <jfenal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rajesh,
Thanks for sharing this!
What would be the target of this document?
Developers to help them understand the importance of context, and start to
add this information to the software?
Translators, in order for them to pay attention to this context
information that may otherwise be overlooked?
Do we have stats about the proportion of strings to translate that
actually use this context information?
And wouldn't it be interesting to have this document as a wiki page rather
than a possibly outdated odt/pdf document circulating from mailbox to
mailbox?
Regards,
J.
2013/4/10 Rajesh Ranjan <rajesh672(a)gmail.com>
> Hi
>
> We, under FUEL Project [1], have prepared a guide that tries to tell in
> briefly about the context and its importance in the field of technical
> translation. Context as an concept is a very controversial subject in
> various discipline. Here we have tried to understand the concept of context
> in the field of technical translation and in particular related to the FOSS
> area. Hope this guide will be helpful for translator as well as developer.
> Please give us feedback. You can download it in odt [2] as well as pdf
> [3] format from here:
>
> [1]
http://www.fuelproject.org/
>
> [2]
>
http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/fuel/qa/fuel-context-in-technical-transla...
>
> [3]
>
http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/fuel/qa/fuel-context-in-technical-transla...
>
>
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