答复: 答复: [Erp5-users] ERP5 Live CD version1.0rc2

[Yoshinori Okuji]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 12:24, Liming_Do wrote:
> I am glad to spend part time to ERP5.Could you evaluate the workload
> of the translating and localising? Because I have full time job in
> daytime.we need more peoples join in the work, if workload is large.
> How did you make your japanese translation?officials sponsor or
> community sponsor?

The Japanese translation was actually a test case for the message 
translation system. A customer required a good message translation 
machanism for multiple languages, so we set up the infrastructure and 
demonstrated it with Japanese.

The translation itself is not very expensive, because you only have to 
translate messages. The time required for a translation depends on how 
much you are used to translating English to your language and the 
number of messages. Since most messages are very short (like less than 
10 words), for me, it takes 1 hour to translate 100 messages.

One problem is that you may sometimes encounter bugs related to Unicode 
strings then you have to investigate the code. I don't think this often 
happens now, because we have already fixed many bugs.

But, if you want to localize, say, the accounting system, this requires 
deep knowledge and understanding about ERP5, so it takes more time. 
Probably some training would be necessary for this.

Personally, I would recommend simply translating messages first. By 
this, you could get used to how to use ERP5 naturally, and this would 
attract more Chinese people. Considering that there are so many good 
developers in China, this is a good starting point in supporting 
Chinese business with ERP5.

YO
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