Open source translation service
Writing the previous post got me thinking:
I would like to have an open sourced free hosted translation service available.
It should offer procedures and tools for localizing .NET applications. A developer should be able to upload a bunch of strings and some context describing text so that volunteering individuals could translate them online.
It could be set up so that you got one string translated in return for translating another string. So if you know one language you could log in to the site and translate other developers stuff and get your things translated in return. This way you could pay someone to translate string to one language on your behalf and you would get more languages in return.
I’m not quite sure how the Ubuntu translations work but I guess we could learn a lot from them.
Is this already done or will it be done before I have had the time to think this through?
It is sometimes tough to turn down help
About a week ago I was offered help to translate logview4net to Russian. The offer came from a gentleman owning an open sourced project for translating .NET applications.
Of course I was thrilled by the offer. I had really thought about localizing it, but since English and Swedish is all I know I haven’t put it on top of my to do list. Most, if not all, Swedish users of logview4net are probably happy using it in English.
Anyway; after looking at the technical solution I decided I didn’t want to use it in my application. I feel a bit bad for letting him do all the work before I looked at his solution. I assumed to much. A bad habit I really need to get rid of. I have localized one large application as an after thought and one as part of the design so my decision is at least based on some experience.
I hope my turn down letter will be regarded as constructive criticism and not a flipped finger.
To any one else wanting to write tools for localizing applications; there a lots of stuff that works in the .NET framework. Try to create tools for all the things that are missing instead of starting from scratch.
Encodings in logview4net
Today a made a new release of logview4net.
I got an error report from a user who had set up a UDP logger with log4net and got loads of weird characters in logview4net. I had hard coded Unicode and log4net was sending something else.
This led me to add a drop down list with available encoders to the Udp Listener. I might do the same for the file listeners in the near future.
This release is number 7.39
The documentation at http://logview4net.com will be updated with new screenshots soon.
