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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An AmigaVision Question
Message-ID: <597@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 09:00:51 GMT
References: <37065@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <16059@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Nov27.020432.11108@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Nov27.112202.7471@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Nov27.112202.7471@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
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>Since Amiga doesn't have Resources and Resource Editors like Macint*sh, it's
>not that simple. The programs must be able to handle the added length of
>text strings in wordy languages like German "Videoapparaturkontrollengeraet"
                                                                 ...geraet"
>(this is by no means correct German, but Yoy get my idea). English is a
>very efficient language if You want to express something in not so many
>characters, and still have it understandable.

Go on, beat us! :-) But you hit the nail just on its head. We HAVE such
long words, and it's a real hard stuff to cram even brutally abbreviated
German words into gadgets optimized for English words.

In AmigaVision they even fooled us with tricks a level higher. There was
a word that was used several times (don't remember it in the moment) and
only appeared once in the translation strings (others appear five times).
But this very word just had to be translated differently for the different
occurences. So we look forward to a little rework on all that stuff to
get an easier to translate version of AV. Though one must say, they
already did a great job in this issue, already 95 % of the translation
problems are solved, and the remaining ones all appear solvable, too.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk