Re: [xwiki-users] resource file is not translation friendly.

Hi. I wondered if I could help translating the resource file to Japanese. But I noticed some problems, so I want to let it to be known. First, I couldn't find a preferred way to contribute resource file translations. Its a common topic in a project like this, so I think it should be clearly documented in an easily found place. Second, I found out that in a couple of cases, the resource string items contain small fragments of sentences, rather than full sentences. This makes it impossible or hard to provide a meaningful translation in languages that have different syntax structures like Japanese. You need to make much more use of the parameters like {0} and {1} and write the full sentence. I will show the ones that I noticed. helponsyntax=Help on the I haven't seen this on the xwiki UI yet. I think this sentence is followed by a text box or a pulldown. So the actual sentence is probably like: Help on the [____]. But in Japanese the sentence structure has to be something like [_____] no help wo hyoji. So adding the label on the left of the UI doesn't work. For very simple statements, english has the structure Verb + object. Japanese has the structure Object + verb. Also I noticed a line: youcan=You can In English you write "You can [do something]", but in Japanese, you write "[do something] dekimasu". So a successful resource string would be youcan=You can {0}. and the Japanese version would be youcan={0} dekimasu. If the "You can" was followed by a structure of UI elements such as a list of checkbox items, A translation friendly label would be a full sentence like "You can do the following:". I stopped translating the file after working on it for about 3 minutes because I felt that there would be many of these. I hope the structure gets revised. I hope even more that someone else translates it to Japanese :-P I like the software itself. It has features that I am looking for. -- natto is japanese food. I chose it for my alias.