[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Coflicting translations for the Web Staff Client

[Cerninakova Eva]

Hi all

We have done some testing in the effort to move forward the localization of
the Web  Client (by the way, I´d like to thank Ben Shum for the amazing
work he is doing for this). During the tests it became necessary to merge
several PO files into one. For testing, we used the Czech localization.

It turned out, after merging the PO files, that in some cases in various
templates the same term was translated in different ways. Regardless of
whether the different translation made a sense or it was just a mistake, if
the translations differs, the term remains untranslated in the Web Staff
Client interface.

However, the issue concerns not only the translators.

As I was checking the translation strings trying to unify them, I have come
across strings, where the English term is problematic for the translation.
Those stings are either English homonyms (which at least in the case of the
Czech language must be translated two different ways) or inconsistently
used English term. Just for completeness: I am in the middle of the effort
and I expect there will be more of such terms in time.

I have opened the bug for this (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1719375) and listed the
problematic terms I encountered so far.  Probably in the cases listed in
the bug, English expression will need to be alter.  I have  made some
suggestions for the solutions or for new possible terms in the bug.
However, they definitely needs to be revised because I'm not a native
speaker (and I might have also missed an important context).

I am quite sure the problem of inconsistent translations  - including
problem of translations of English homonyms - will apply not only to Czech
translation and localization but also to translations into other languages
(and it will  be probably needed to consider, what to do in such  cases.)

Eva







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