Updating translation workflow

[Gabor Kovesdan]

Em 20-08-2013 19:10, Warren Block escreveu:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Gabor Pali wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Well, yes, but this appears to be manual and does not automatically
>>> translate the same strings that are found in other documents. That 
>>> is part
>>> of what the newer automated systems do.
>>
>> Erm, I am a bit skeptic about this as nouns (and expressions) in
>> Hungarian may be conjugated; inserting them into a sentence would
>> require one to understand the original context of the word -- that is,
>> if some automated system could translate those words in case of such a
>> language, no humans would be required any more at all... :-)
>
> I would think translations of larger strings ("This is an example of a 
> FreeBSD system") would override translations of smaller strings 
> ("FreeBSD").
>
> But it's not clear, and a test would help.  Certainly it can be made 
> to work.  Other large projects are using these systems, with a lot of 
> content translated.  Because of the translation database, rewrites or 
> massive edits would force the translators to start over. 
I've worked with Trados before (commercial CAT software) and there you 
can set up a match percentage limit. If the limit is met, you are 
offered the translation of the matching text but you are able to edit 
it. From the translations you write a dictionary file is created, which 
stores earlier translations, so as you progress, there is always a wider 
basis of translations to search for matches. I think using similar 
methods in FreeBSD would be very practical if we can find proper open 
source CAT tools. I agree with Warren that we should improve our 
workflow since it is really outdated. As for expanding the entities, I'm 
concerned that we may loose functionality so I'd prefer just handling 
entity references as plain text there and translating them in the entity 
files or something similar.

Gabor