[vlc-devel] Re: German localization on new OSX-Interface

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 14 dec 2003, at 12:40, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> Felix Kühne wrote on Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:21:59 +0100:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm currently working on an update to the german localization. I've
>> noticed the german strings for the new playlist-window to long, even
>> if
>> I use the smallest possible translations. Those of you who can speak
>> german know that you cannot make "Eines wiederholen" (the translation
>> of "repeat item") shorter.
>
> "Eines wiederholen" sounds not very professional. I would make that
> "Eintrag wiederholen". When making translations, I would emphasize
> professional sound. Some translations I have come across (non vlc
> related) even sound like Baby-speech. An interface should simply be
> font sensitive. No sizes should be hardcoded. The translator should not
> have to worry about this.

And that is why .nib files are actually not cool at all. It's cool for 
rapid development, but when you need to do advanced stuff like 
supporting localizations in it (without having 10 exact the same nib 
files which need to be actively updated every release by MacOSX 
users....) And Cocoa is a disaster to programatically create user 
interfaces and dynamically resizing stuff while still making it all 
look good. You are right that we should .

I'll ask Max to look at it and make suggestions about it.
>
> Regards,
> -Stephan
>
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