[ckan-discuss] issues with CKAN translation

[Daniel Dietrich]

Hi Stefano

We had exactely the same problem with the German translation.

Daniel

On 09.06.2010, at 11:36, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> while translating CKAN to Italian I noticed there are some  
> shortcomings
> with strings being too much split, as this introduces some problems  
> with
> sentence structure in languages like Italian (and I think several  
> other
> languages - I'm curious about Hungarian for example), that differ a  
> lot
> from English.
>
> Ideally, one would want to translate longer strings of text that  
> make up
> entire sentences rather than small bits that end up in a fixed order.
>
> Example: in the footer, there is "An <Open Knowledge Foundation>
> project".
>
> In Italian, I would write "Un progetto della <Open Knowledge
> Foundation>" (that's why I left this text in English, btw).
>
> Not the most urgent of problems, but something to take into account.
>
> Ciao,
> Stefano
>
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> Stefano Costa
>
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