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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 28/05/2019 à 20:27, Jon Evans a écrit :
> Is a good general approach here to use more tooltips for longer strings,
> and make strings that are part of the UI layout as small as possible?
> 

Too small strings ( especially one word string ) are often
untranslatable because the same word need to be translated to different
words.
Moreover, translated strings are most of time longer than the English
string.
So a "good" layout becomes not good once translated, if it is optimized
for the English version.

So "as small as possible" is not always good.
Strings are more easy translatable when they contain at least 2 words.

So, in dialogs,  one word UI strings like "Reset", "Clear", "Begin",
"End" are barely translatable (The translation is sometimes not
understandable depending on the context).

Of course, tooltips are always welcome.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS