Re: [android-developers] are text files in assets translated to the local language?

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 11:39:38AM +0900, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:

First, let me say that I am absolutely AMAZED that this thread went
beyond two posts (my original question, and one answer).

> You can also upload strings.xml to Google Translate using the
> Translator Toolkit and get the files translated and formatted automatically
> as described here:
>
> http://googledevelopers.blogspot.jp/2012/03/localize-your-apps-and-content-more.html
>
> http://translate.google.com/toolkit
>
> Whether you'd want to use the result as in your app is another
> matter though.

Well, I don't really know, so I'm open for advice on this one.[1] So,
it seems I basically have two choices:

1) go with the above machine translations (except for Russian, where
I already have an offer---thanks again, Kostya).

2) just leave it English as, apparently, my previous apps have all
been (I wish I knew where I read that strings.xml was automatically
translated---I read that and have thought that was true all this
time). At least I've kept all strings IN strings.xml as a result
(except for text files in assets).

Any suggestions as to which I should go with? And...given that the
method I'd read about won't work (since two letters isn't always enough),
any suggestions on knowing what prefix matches what? I'm clueless
here....

Thanks,
--jim

[1] As I've already mentioned, thanks to cancer #1 I am existing (can't
really call it living) on Social Security Disability, and don't have
an extra dime to pay for professional translators---again, I'm
*HOPING*[2] that this app might help me get beyond the need for SSD,
but consider that cautious optimism....But then, just being able to
pay off part of several thousand dollars worth of medical bills would
be nice.....

[2] (key word there...I know, from comments I've gotten, that I'm filling a
gap, but will that be enough? I have no idea)

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