Re: Translating GUI labels to French

["Simon North" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com>]

Carol, 

I translate German/Dutch/French to English as a freelancer, and manage

the English to French/German/Danish/Dutch localizations for my
employer. 

The best advice I can probably give is to go to the Microsoft developer
site 
and download the translation glossary for French. The glossaries are
large, but a free 
download. If you want to make this more structural, buy a copy of
WinLex so 
that you can have a useful search interface (the original files are
Excel 
spreadsheets). A lot of Microsoft's translations are really stupid and
the 
glossaries are full of dumb mistakes and typos, but they are a good
source 
for standard phrases like button captions and, errors and all, they are
a sort 
of de facto industry standard. 

There is also a much smaller and more modern combined glossary for 
all the languages (they claim 12,000 terms in 59 languages) at: 

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/MILSGlossary.mspx 
 
Hope this helps, 

Simon 

 
  


Simon North, Technical Writer.
Quintiq Application Software BV
's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
 
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