[udig-devel] Re: Direction needed for Translation of Online Help

[Matthias Basler]

Jody wrote:

> The bad news: I am not quite sure what is best for translations, let me 
> outline two alternatives....

Let me see:

> - Translations can use non english page names, links done as [Erste 
> Schritte]
vs.
> - Translations use english page names, links done as [Erste 
> Schritte|Getting Started]

I always believed the english page names are required in order to recognize pages with same content in different spaces and allow to switch between them? Am I wrong?
If I am right alternative B is the only useful?

> - Help pages is generated from the wiki for each language
vs.
> - Help pages genreated from the wiki (html only)

So what's the difference here? Do we need help pages in another format than HTML?


> - Help table of contents file generated from wiki parent/child structure
> - The context associations must be translated, associating user 
> interface widgets to pages in the target language
vs.
> - Help table of contents file must be translated (see example below)
> - The context associations work out of the box (this was the point of 
> sticking with english names)

In this case I like the Alternative B better. Translating the context associations seems more work to be done. But since I havn't tried yet I might as well be wrong.

I havn't update the German help pages lately, I've concentrated on the GUI translations, so my slight vote for alternative B is not too important.


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Matthias Basler
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