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[Joel De Gan]

Yes,
for one large project (domain name registrar) we had a team of
translators who entered the translations for the site so that we could
have the entire site in 15 different languages.
Be careful with Japanese however as they have seven levels of business
formality so if you are running an online business with this it is
something to be careful of.

Cheers

Joel De Gan
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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:28, Phillip Powell wrote:
> Problem with most online translators is that they do "machine-level" 
> translation, that is, word-for-word translation, which is impossible to 
> do grammatically correctly from English to Spanish and then from English 
> to Swedish and from English to Japanese, as each language has its own 
> grammatical, syntactical and conjugational construct.  Best approach is 
> a "human-level" translation, where via locale-database marrying allows 
> for human translators to enter a phrase into a db that would be pulled 
> according to locale, so that you would have:
> 
> English: Hello, how are you?
> 
> Into Swedish: Hej hej, hur mår du?
> 
> Into Japanese: Ohayo/Konnichiwa/Konbamwa, ikaga desu ka?
> 
> Do any of the aforementioned PHP tools do human-level translation, 
> that's been something I can't find online, just information on 
> "machine-level" style, which is IMHO a waste of translation.
> 
> Phil
> 
> Joel De Gan wrote:
> 
> >note: I also should note that this is not "automatic" but it is easy
> >enough to feed your text through babelfish to get at least rough
> >translations first..
> >
> >-joel
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:36, Joel De Gan wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Use gettext.. that is what most larger sites with multi-lang sites use.
> >>works great with php/mysql..
> >>
> >>http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
> >>
> >>http://us2.php.net/gettext
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>Joel De Gan
> >>---------
> >>http://listbid.com - php freelance
> >>http://broadwords.com - get $10 free advertising for your site
> >>    
> >>
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