Contextualization for Software Localization

Rajesh Ranjan rajesh672 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 07:46:10 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ankit Patel <ankit644 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 12:43 PM, Ankit Patel wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My blog post about "Contextualization for Software Localization"
>> Concept: Review and modify the source code of software applications
>> in order to add comments or references or context for the
>> translatable messages in order to make them more meaningful so that
>> it could be easily understood by translators that will help us get
>> the best localization in the industry!
>>
>> and more here... http://www.ankit644.com/?p=296
>>
>> Thought this would be helpful in further initiatives!
>>
>> Regards, Ankit Patel
>
>
> Just came across similar discussion on gnome i18n list:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2013-March/msg00061.html
> referencing bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695553
>
> /Ankit
>
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Thanks Ankit for sharing the blog! Thanks Sankarshan for sharing your
view by posting your blog post link here. From both blogs, I learnt
lots.

I remember one famous quote of Derrida - "There is nothing outside the
text " means "There is no such a thing as out-of-the-text" means
"There is nothing outside context".  And further "context" is the
entire "real-history-of-the-world!" And this analogy can be
implemented in the software field :-)

I want to reiterate here as well that FUEL gives context much
importance and so from the beginning it has given stress on full
entries with full context instead of single word glossary.

Ankit, We have 578 strings in Desktop module and we add moble and web
it will be c.1500 so we can provide 1500 context as least to the
users. Let us think more on it and we will sure can come at better
solutions.


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Regards,
Rajesh Ranjan
www.rajeshranjan.in


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