RE: simple language testable thing

Ahh.. 

In Hebrew (for once ) this is easy.

A foreign word is written in a different character set.

Lots of foreign words become merged with Hebrew but then they are
written in Hebrew. The problem hits when you are expected to know a
different alphabet for the honor of reading brand and product names, or
the word "cool" etc etc..

Level one - translate words that are written in a different character
set to the primary page encoding?

Level 3 - 
Provide translations for any text not written in the natural language of
the page 



All the best
Lisa Seeman
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yvette P. Hoitink [mailto:y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:26 PM
> To: 'lisa seeman'; 'W3c-Wai-Gl@W3.Org'
> Subject: RE: simple language testable thing
> 
> 
> Lisa Seeman: 
> 	Hear is an obvious and useful one (especially for non 
> English sites)
> 	 
> 	Provide translations for any text not written in the 
> natural language of the page 
> 
> 
> Yvette:
> 
> Yikes! That would be amazingly difficult in languages such as 
> Dutch that use a _lot_ of foreign words. See the article I 
> wrote about examples of language changes in websites: 
> available at http://www.heritas.nl/wcag/language.html
> 
> What _is_ a foreign word? Take the examples:
> 1. A word that has been in the language for so long it can be 
> found in all the dictionaries ('manager' in Dutch) 2. A word 
> that has been in the language for a while, and can be found 
> in the extended version of a dictionary, but not in the 
> pocket editions ('award' in
> Dutch)
> 3. A mixed word like 'shoppen' where a foreign word (shop) 
> has been made into a verb in the native language ('shoppen' 
> in Dutch), and isn't in any dictionary. 
> 4. A word or phrase that is used from the foreign language 
> ('quick links')
> 
> In my opinion, examples 2 and 4 can be called foreign and 
> would need translations according to Lisa's suggested 
> guideline. But it's a grey area, you can just as easily argue 
> that example 2 isn't foreign anymore. It's definitely NOT 
> simply applicable. 
> 
> If we require something like what Lisa suggested, we might 
> have to make it level 3 because it is asking quite a lot for 
> a language like Dutch and would prevent a lot of people from 
> aspiring to reach level 2. 
> 
> Yvette Hoitink
> CEO Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands
> E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2004 03:35:19 UTC