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Isn't it "i18n"? We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDPKN7EdKgS_2ZrsDrOA8scgwQ/edit#gid=0 h
by davidjgraph 4y ago
Isn't it "i18n"?
We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDPKN7EdKgS_2ZrsDrOA8scgwQ/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP.... We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file.
All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch.
We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.
- operator-name 4y agoInternationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-the-diff/ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...
- PostOnce 4y agoOh god, let's not start a10g words this way. a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y. I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.
- bondarchuk 4y agoWhat gets me most is whether you have to count all the letters of the word, or just those left out.
- dstick 4y agoJ2t t3e l2t o1t It’s infuriatingly annoying ;-)
- b0afc375b5 4y agohttps://css-tricks.com/the-ironic-inaccessibility-of-a11y/ https://css-tricks.com/the-ironic-inaccessibility-of-a11y/
- zamadatix 4y agoa11y looking like ally makes it the only one I don't roll my eyes at... but that only seems clever/memorable because of all of the preceeding awful uses of that abbreviation form.
- phoe-krk 4y agoH0a h0a h0a h0a h0a, I like that.
- tempodox 4y agoOh, it's supposed to be a lowercase “L”? I thought it was a vertical bar (“pipe”). Pipe ten nanoseconds? I wish HN used a more readable font.
- version_five 4y agoHaha yeah I saw this earlier and that's exactly how I read it, I had no idea what it meant and I didn't click. Only now that I'm bored I went back to it- I would never have guessed the actual meaning
- tobr 4y agoAka cute abbreviations that are impossible to remember or understand (c62d).
- yardshop 4y agoLike the actual meaning of PCMCIA cards: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!
- silicon2401 4y agoThese abbreviations are among the stupidest trends in tech. We should learn from the Germans and embrace long words
- noasaservice 4y agof4k this crap. Spell it out.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThe ironic thing about this language is that it is an attempt to be "inclusive" by introducing weird shibboleths that exclude most people. I was once informed by someone at a big tech that the reason for these "x[n]y" codes is because these words can be hard to spell for non-native speakers of English. Also, they added "a11y" (accessibility) to the list. I think the real explanation was that these were introduced because "internationalization" is a long word and file path names used to be limited in the 1980s.
- hannes_paul 4y agoWhat do you mean with showing you the diff BEFORE you merge? Do you run a script comparing your current repository translation files with the ones on the google spreadsheet?
- solardev 4y agoThis covers strings, but what do you do about right-to-left languages, cultural differences in (say) information density, date pickers, color usage, UI preferences, emoji use, whatever? Did you make a conscious decision to only localize strings?