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From: "Harry Goegebeur" <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] TMG-L: RE: Dutch language translation not complete
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:08:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: <04fcjskjr47q0pjkr1pocjtmpdcevcsm9u@4ax.com>


Hello All,

> I don't know much about the Netherlands translation, but I'm the
> compiler of the Norwegian3 language table, and I'll try to help you. But
> before that I must ask you to turn off the HTML in your mail to this
> list, as the digest mode can't handle it.

> Actually, selecting a different language from the default is only the
> first step. The Dutch translation table isn't even complete; you must
> edit to your own needs. The second step is to edit the default tag
> sentence of each tag that you use. For instance the Marriage tag, you
> press F4 to open the tag list. Select Marriage, and then Edit. In the
> bottom of the tag box, you see the sentence which reads:

> "[P] married [PO] <[PARO]> <[D]> <[L]>"

> Now, change the word "married" to whatever the word is in Dutch. If this
> yields a syntactically bad sentence in your language, you may have to
> reconstruct the sentence by shuffling the variables around a bit. In
> some of the more complex tags, this task can be quite taxing. However,
> you'll get the hang of it eventually.

Here I can say that in case of foreign languages UFT is stronger! In UFT we
have more control about the events, roles and sources. UFT has standard 3
languages supported (English, French and German) all the events and roles
are provided in those three languages. So if you choose french then your
report will be in French without having to edit the role sentences. If I am
correct (regarding your solution for the roles in TMG) then if you decide to
have Dutch sentences you cannot have reports with role sentences in English
or French any longer. In UFT I translated the German part of the events,
roles, strings, relations and sources into Dutch (they are all in DBF files
which we can edit). So we could (and can if we still use UFT) switch from
English to French and Dutch reports.
I hope the 4.0a version will have more possibilities in managing the roles
as Bob promised us. For us foreigners it is an issue of great importance.
Kind regards
Harry

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