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| [rant]why do english/chinese companies don't give a damn about other languages.. |
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| all_repair:
It cost money, and not a small sum to those companies that are selling to the hobbyists. And these manuals are normally written by the engineers, and they are extremely difficult to understand even for people who know Chinese. It is almost written as their log books. |
| JPortici:
--- Quote from: StuUK on September 21, 2016, 11:33:49 am ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers Looks like you're 18th in line/queue ;) --- End quote --- [still rant] then don't translate. :scared: should i tell fluke that the intern they put to manage the website wrote that their italian meters update every four seconds? |
| Delta:
--- Quote from: JPortici on September 21, 2016, 12:48:30 pm ---[still rant] then don't translate. :scared: should i tell fluke that the intern they put to manage the website wrote that their italian meters update every four seconds? --- End quote --- Yes. Yes you certainly could. Maybe even hint that your purchasing manager was going to place a bulk order for new DMMs but the engineering manager made him buy a different brand due to the poor update time... >:D You are right though: do a job properly or not at all. |
| dannyf:
A simple cost and benefit analysis: between English and Chinese, you can cover 99 percent of your target market. Then why bother with the last 1 percent? Figuratively speaking. |
| AntiProtonBoy:
I develop apps and I can attest that translating a million different things is a major pain in the arse. It's a maintenance nightmare and often foreign language versions of text gets out of date pretty quickly. Every time you make a minor edit to English text, that change must be reflected in other languages as well and go through all the channels that do the translation for you. dannyf has a point, huge chunk of your market already speaks English and it's not worth the effort and expense to offer translations. |
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