Re: To all cocoa developers - new cocoa dev forum
Re: To all cocoa developers - new cocoa dev forum
- Subject: Re: To all cocoa developers - new cocoa dev forum
- From: Jon Hull <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:24:10 -0800
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 11:22 PM, m wrote:
email@hidden meinte doch tatsdchlich:
Hi,
You should probably provide an English version for registration, for
those
out there who don't spreach the deutsch...
wtf?
this... is... simply... AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
Ever thought of apple providing localized documentation? or even
localized dev-apps?
I agree with you here, but we even have trouble getting full
documentation in English (those Apple guys are very busy), so that may
be ideal, but unrealistic. As for localizing the dev-apps, I think
that is a very reasonable request (hopefully Apple is listening). BTW,
it seems that PB is localized for Japanese!
or the fact that the whole language is in english - where "human
readable" makes me laugh every time...
I remember a few years ago, a friend and I looked into making a
multilingual programming language... where code written in one language
could be read as another (i.e. French->Spanish). The idea was that
since you had a systematic language, with a list of keywords, you could
go through and translate precisely. This works great for any language
made before the invention of the function. Once you get into modern
languages however, things get a bit more tricky. Basically, we could
translate keywords and toolbox calls, but programmers would have to
provide translations for anything they wrote (FN and Var Names, etc...)
or you would get partial translations. Lots of other small problems
too. It turned out to be just too big a project for us.
"provide an english version" my... go learn the language, if you're
interested in the product. we had to, see? we may not be doing great,
but at least we TRY!
If you are visiting a country, you should definitely try learn the
language, its rude not to. But remember we are the salesmen here...
and WE (through the internet) are visiting THEIR country. I would
never expect someone who doesn't speak English to buy my product unless
I localize it for them. If you don't want to localize your product,
that is fine, but don't expect customers who can't speak the language
to line up for it.
Thanks,
Jon
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