[josm-dev] Trouble translating JOSM: Same strings used in different places

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Both are well established standards in English whereas other languages
> might have other well established standards. The two incidentally
> being the same in English carrying over to other languages is a
> systemic problem of the translation system which needs to be solved,
> as it'll only get worse the more languages we have.

Without changes to the code itself for each language you will never be 
able to support non-english languages with perfect grammar and 
translations. We will have to live with that fact. It is a compromise 
between different requirements. So in case there is really no possibility 
to translate clashing texts in a useful way we will try to find a solution 
in the original strings. All the other 20 included translations have same 
problems and we somehow solved them. I'm always for improving the english 
original as well but I will not optimize JOSM for one specific language.

E.g. Bicycle parking in German has also a different meaning than car 
parking, but not so different that nobody would understand what is meant. 
I'm pretty sure this is even true in English original.

Ciao
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