french localization ?

french localization ?

I'm considering translating Cheetah in french, for I know some people using it without any english skills. Is there anybody already doing this ?
 
Hi,
thanks that you want to help me out a little bit. :D

But localizing the app has a quite negative side effect. The english documentation and the tutorials become more difficult to understand. Because the parameter names in the app and the documenation differ.

Cheetah3D currently offers a german UI and I already got some requests to either drop the german UI or to translate the hole documentation in german. And I have to admit that the mixture of a german UI and the english documetation can be quite confusing. That's why I already considered dropping the german UI support. Because I just don't have the time to maintain a german and an english documentation.

The same problem would probably arise with a french localization.

By,
Martin
 
That's right. I became aware of this problem while beginning the translation. I think translating the documentation but keeping english terms would be more useful, wouldn't it ? But it seems an awful lot of work...
 
Hi,
that's right. Translating the documentation would be really a lot of work. The documentation in general is one of my biggest problem because maintaining it is a lot of work.

The other problem with a localized documentation would be that I update the documentation with almost every update. So it would be also a lot of work to keep the localized documentation up to date.

This would be easier for a app which only releases one feature update every two years. Localization is probably one of the reasons why the big software companies only release very few feature updates.

By,
Martin
 
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