English to Spanish for some reports.

31 Jan 2006 1:20 PM

Grant

I never had to deal with language in the past. We are getting some request
to print certain reports in Spanish. The user are mostly English user so
there is no need to change the language in the program just certain reports
because those reports get posted in schools or send home to parents that may
only read Spanish. I have no idea where to start, is there such tool that
will translate it to Spanish?

Thanks.

31 Jan 2006 3:45 PM

Saga

The "tool" is mostly some one that sits down with you and translates the
text to Spanish. Although there are software translators, the final
draft usually requires human intervention to make sure that the
translation is in context.

Regards
Saga

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"Grant" <em***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I never had to deal with language in the past. We are getting some
>request to print certain reports in Spanish. The user are mostly
>English user so there is no need to change the language in the program
>just certain reports because those reports get posted in schools or
>send home to parents that may only read Spanish. I have no idea where
>to start, is there such tool that will translate it to Spanish?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

1 Feb 2006 12:07 PM

nrford

"Grant" <em***@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:OEbOGmmJGHA.3332@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I never had to deal with language in the past. We are getting some request to print certain reports
>in Spanish. The user are mostly English user so there is no need to change the language in the
>program just certain reports because those reports get posted in schools or send home to parents
>that may only read Spanish. I have no idea where to start, is there such tool that will translate
>it to Spanish?

I don't think that you would get anything that
you would want to send to parents or post in
schools.

Translation requires A.I. which can understand
each language the way we do (e.g.: HAL-9000).
Without such understanding, you will get mostly
gobbledy-gook.

To prove the point, get any translation program,
type in your report, have it translate to Spanish,
then take that output and translate it back to
English and see what you end up with.