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Help - what does it mean "translating all items" using language "as a guide"?

Asked by Honore

Hello, have some questions about the translation interface - not sure what some things mean and haven't found documentation covering them.

When I click on a template for my project, it shows at the top "Translating all items using (language) as a guide". What does that mean, "as a guide"? What changes when I choose a different language from the drop-down menu for a guide? For example, if the translation template is spanish, and I choose to use "Chinese" as a guide, what does that do? And lastly, what affects the number of languages available in that drop-down menu?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide to help clear up this confusion.

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Best Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said : 		#1

The translation pages can show suggestions made for translating the strings you see. If you select a language from the dropdown, then the suggestions are taken not just from the language you're looking at but also from this extra language. This can be useful when another language is very similar to yours, or when the English is not clear to you and you would like to see translations to some other language.

By the way, selecting "Chinese" won't help because that language isn't normally used. There is "Simplified Chinese" as written in most of mainland China, and there is "Traditional Chinese" as written in Taiwan, Hong Kong (with some differences) and so on.

If there are no suggestions are shown, or the system isn't showing suggestions to you (e.g. if you do not have review permissions for the translation) then the dropdown will have no visible effect. I'm registering that as bug 384705.

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Henning Eggers (henninge) said : 		#2

The languages found in that drop-down box are your preferred languages as configured for your account. So for you, this should show "Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Hong Kong), French, Italian, Spanish". You seem to be quite multilingual ... ;-)

Regards,
Henning

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Honore (honore) said : 		#3

Thanks Jeroen T. Vermeulen, that solved my question.

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Honore (honore) said : 		#4

Thanks to Henning also! I wish I were that multi-lingual, but those languages actually represent the initial selection of languages we want to translate our project into...which leads me to post another question about the default 3 languages I see for my project. :)