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It won't help much with Chinese localization, where the persistent problem is that developers assume every language has the words "yes" and "no".
by chungleong 8y ago
It won't help much with Chinese localization, where the persistent problem is that developers assume every language has the words "yes" and "no".
- themacguffinman 8y agoDoesn't Chinese have understandable localizations for affirmative/negative responses like "是" and "没有"? I don't see the problem.
- chungleong 8y agoThat's roughly like putting [OK] and [Cancel] into a dialog box that asks "Do you want to save this document?". Perfectly understandable but awkward, somewhat confusing to non-tech people--in a word, unfluent. Answering such questions in Chinese (and I imagine, in Welsh) requires the verb that was used in the question.
- zbraniecki 8y agoHi! This is also a problem in Welsh [0]. In the Fluent world we solve that on the level of design principles (do not reuse the string `yes` because it can be translated to a different `yes` in different buttons) and bindings (compound messages allow us to localize a whole widget with a main message and its yes/no options). [0] http://psychopixi.com/languages/yes-and-no/ http://psychopixi.com/languages/yes-and-no/