Re: International Editions of Programs/Web Sites

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

There were some good articles on "globalizing" software in "Embedded Systems
Programming" magazine about 5-6 months ago.  A search should find it.  One
suggestion, which I thought was good, was to use something like excel to
keep a table of all these things.  You can set up the English text in a
column, with another column(s) telling where that text gets used, and then
add columns for the foreign languages.  Sometimes, a given English word has
two meanings, and maps into two different translations, depending on the
usage.

Excel has some useful functions to do things like figure out how long the
strings are (so you can quickly determine how long the control needs to be
on your VB form, etc.)  Sure, there's going to be some manual retyping, but
face it, language translation's not something readily done well by algorithm
anyway...


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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: International Editions of Programs/Web Sites


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Rscopper-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> International list members,
>
> To help all the programmers on the list that want to make their programs
> global, and those coilers that don't speak english very well, please
translate
> the following text into your native language and post on the list.
>
> If anyone wants to try and translate the safety information found on
> www.pupman-dot-com, that would also be helpful.
>
>
> English
>
> New features
> Bug Fixes:
> Default design parameters
> DISCLAIMER:
> Primary Transformer
> Output Voltage
> Rated Current
> Input Frequency
> Capacitor Match
> Recommended Power Factor Correction Capacitor
> Input Voltage
> Diameter of toroid tube.
> Diameter of toroid ( tube center to tube center).
> Shape of Top Capacitor
> Toroid
> Sphere
> Total Diameter
> Spacing
> Total Turns
> Inductance
> Frequency
> Inside Diameter
> Wire
> Required C
> Total
> Primary Coil
> Secondary Coil
> Radius
> Length of wire
> Average
> Coil Configuration
> Angle From Horizontal Plane
> Wire Gauge
> Circumference
> H/D Aspect
> Height to diameter aspect ratio
> Self Capacitance
> Top Load C
> Design Parameters
> Scratch Pad
> Percent
> For A PFC Rating Of
> Break Rate
> Number of Gaps
> Each Gap Width
> Trigger Voltage
> Single Gap
> Maximum Spark Output (based on 1.2*sqrt(power-in)):
> Use Bert Pool Equation
> Use Mark Rzeszotarski Equation
> Capacitance
>  From Australian Journal of Physics
> Tesla Coil Design
> primary coil winding
> Trans/Cap Match
> Reference
> Spark Gap
> Power Output
> + any other coil terminology you can think of that I've missed.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> R. Scott Coppersmith
>
>