RE: External localization?

["Martinek, Carla M" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com>]

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com]
	Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:54 PM
	To: TECHWR-L
	Subject: External localization?

	Has anyone here encountered a scheme in which the constant strings, 
	particularly the diagnostic messages, of a software product are 
	separated from the software itself?

	This would enable the publishing of revised error messages, or of
the 
	HTML help text, on a website where customers could download them and

	upgrade their software without a build.

	It could even be used for localization -- not only for the
diagnostica 
	but for the displayed values (like names of buttons and fields) in
UIs 
	as long as provision was made for differences in the length of such
values.

	-- 
	Guy K. Haas
	guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com | gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net



Absolutely.  It's exactly what I do with our printer displays.

Our printers have a 14- or 16-character LCD display.  The engineers extract
out the phrases that end users actually see, and I get them translated
accordingly. They are then "re-inserted" back into the code.  I'm not
exactly sure *how* they get it back in the code, but I believe one of our
engineers wrote a script for it.

************************* 
Carla Martinek, Translation Coordinator/Editor 
Zebra Technologies Corporation 
333 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 
tel: 847.793.5616   fax: 847.821.1795 
cmartinek -at- zebra -dot- com 



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