Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
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Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
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Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#2Simple, useful, and well executed.
Thanks for sharing! (or... Mübadiləsi üçün təşəkkür edirik!)
My one thought is that string length in pixels is more important than character count, but you sidestep that issue by showing all the results. You can easily see if one is longer even though it has fewer characters.
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#3Simple, useful, and well executed. Thanks for sharing! (or... Mübadiləsi üçün təşəkkür edirik!) My one thought is that string length in pixels is more important than character count, but you sidestep that issue by showing all the results. You can easily see if one is longer even though it has fewer characters.
Thanks for the feedback DanielStraight! Yep definitely a great idea and something I want to do!
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#4What do you use to translate and what is the quality rate on it?
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#5What do you use to translate and what is the quality rate on it?
Underneath it is currently using the Yandex API, mainly due to it's generous free tier. Can't speak to the quality myself, but it does the job as a quick tool for simple translations.
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#6As a quick explanation. Very simple utility for quickly seeing what is the longest translation (by number of characters) for a specific word/phrase.
Plan to keep this online until I hit my API call limit then will post the source over the weekend!
Enjoy!
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#7wow the front-end makes a separate ajax call for each language - efficient!
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#8wow the front-end makes a separate ajax call for each language - efficient!
anentropic: I liked the effect of when a translation appearing as soon as they return. Not the most efficient decision I know! :D
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#9What do you use to translate and what is the quality rate on it?
I just played with it for a while and the German translations often were pretty bad ("Essen sie nicht, dass" for "Don't eat that!", when "Essen Sie das nicht!" or "Iss das nicht!" would be correct)
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#10I've tried "once upon a time there was a king" (the first common words in a lot of fairy tales), which in Romanian should have been translated in five words - "a fost odată un împărat". This tool gives me "cu mult timp în urmă a Trăit-o a fost regele" - double of that amount (and I stop before getting into comments about the translated content itself)!