On 13 July 2010 16:46, Jimmy O'Regan <jore...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 July 2010 16:18, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Launchpad? I'll admit that I haven't looked at it in quite a while, >>> but I remember it being poor quality software producing poor quality >>> translations; I've heard that the quality of the translations has >>> improved quite drastically, but I'd still prefer software designed by >>> translators for translators, like Pootle. >> >> That's not how Launchpad translations works. You upload the .pot, and >> anybody (person not computer) (or only those you allow) can translate >> the strings. The only automation is that the translator is offered >> similar strings from other packages as suggestions. > > I have no idea what you think I meant, but you seem to have > misunderstood me. I mean that, Pootle's developers are translators > themselves, and their target users are also translators. By contrast, > Launchpad was developed by people who seem to know little or nothing > about translation at all, for a target audience of people who are not > translators, but who happen to speak another language and want to make > a contribution. > > I was not suggesting that Launchpad uses MT (MT happens to be my 'day > job'). I was suggesting that the collective efforts at Launchpad are, > or at least were, similarly unreliable.
Launchpad trolling aside, I am being somewhat serious here. The usual output that the user will encounter in normal operation is quite typical, but there are quite a lot of strings that *may* be output to the user that are quite complicated and will require the attention of serious translators: the sort who are involved in terminology normalisation. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en.