Re:Office 2000 is good to go
by endgame on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:19PM
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Look at old pictures of (say) Netscape Navigator. Despite having far fewer pixels we somehow had enough to label our icons. What went wrong?
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Globalization happened
English "250 views" = 8 chars wide German "250 mal angesehen" = 17 chars wide
English "FAQ" = 3 chars wide Portuguese "Perguntas freqüentes" = 20 characters wide
It isn't uncommon for english words to expand 200-300% when translated to other languages.
I'd love to see a german, italian, or portuguese version of netscape to see how they fit those labels
> I'd love to see a german, italian, or portuguese version of netscape to see how they fit those labels
https://aware7.de/wp-content/uploads/Netscape_4.png
Doesn't look like a showstopper, at least for the specific toolbar icons that Netscape had.
Re:Office 2000 is good to go
by GekkePrutser on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @08:17PM
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"Verwandte Objek" seems cut off, it should be "Objekte" but other than that it aligns pretty well.
Ps my German is basic so perhaps I'm wrong
nice find! There are a few English bits on there: guide, stop, shop. Wonder why
"Guide" and "stop" are not only English words, but present in lots of European languages. "Shop" is a common loanword from English in lots of these European languages.
Re:Office 2000 is good to go
by SubiculumCode on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:50PM
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I imagine that abbreviations are common in these languages?
It really depends on the phrase. FAQ was just used as an extreme example.
The French made up a translation to fit the acronym.
FAQ = “Foire aux questions”, where “foire” is the French word for a fair, a place where you go to see many things (in this case, questions).