[sword-devel] Help appreciated with French (was: Locked Bible Versions)

[Adrian Frost]

Lynn,

Here's some possibilities:

> English                       French (Adrian :-)
> Case Sensitive        Cas sensible
> Case Insensitive    Cas insensible
> All Words                   Tous les mots
> Any Word                  Tout mot
> All words or any     Tous les mots ou tout mot
> Exact Words              Mots exacts or Expression exacte
> Font                        Police (can have Police de caractères as well
either/or) (Font Size = Taille de police)
> Small                         Petite (feminine because police is feminine)
> Medium                     Moyenne (as above)
> Large                        Grande (as above)
> Entire Bible                La Bible Entière
> New Testament         Nouveau Testament
> Old Testament           Ancien Testament
> Gospels                     Les Evangiles (you don't tend to use accents
on capital letters)
> Search from                 Recherche du .... (normally would be
'recherche de' but because both beginning and chapter (as in current
chapter) are masculine de becomes du)
> Beginning                 Début
> Current Chapter       Chapitre actuel
> Each word                 Chaque mot
> Yes                          Oui
> No                           Non

That's kind of a first attempt.  Barry had done a very good job. I shall run
this lot past a friend of mine just to be sure - I think his English might
be good enough :-) French phrases often seem to come out a bit longer than
English ones which can be a killer for dialog boxes. I know someone who may
be able to help with Dutch and German. I'll pass this e-mail along.
It may be worth your while popping along to Goggle, having a look at
'Advanced Search' in English then flipping the language 'Preferences' to
French and going back to 'Recherche Avancée' to see how Goggle has done it.

Adrian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Allan" <l.allan@att.net>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: [sword-devel] Help appreciated with French (was: Locked Bible
Versions)


> > 1. Locked Bible Versions (French) (Adrian Frost)
>
> > Is anyone working on getting any of the French bible versions unlocked
for
> > use with the SWORD Project? I work in French speaking Belgium and I'm
> > available to help in contacting publishers of French versions. My French
> is
> > good enough to be of service if you don't have any francophones working
on
> > the project. I have friends and contacts within the Belgian Christian
> > Evangelical bookshop system who may be able to help.
> > Having those versions available would be very useful to me personally
too.
> >
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I was hoping you could help out the LcdBible project with some
> quick/dirty/adequate French internationalization. LcdBible has an "Options
> ..." dialog with a relatively small number of options. It would be much
> appreciated to get reasonable translations of these words/phrases. Barry
> Drake provided his best guestimates, and perhaps you could suggest
> appropriate revisions, as applicable:
>
> > On 6 Jan 2004 at 10:16, Lynn Allan wrote:
>
>
> > English                       French (Drake)         French (Adrian :-)
> > Case Sensitive
> > Case Insensitive
> ?? Capitalization Matters ??
> ?? Capitalization Taken Into Account ??
> > All Words                   Tous les Mots
> > Any Word                  Mot Simple
> > Exact Words              Mots Exact
> > Font              Police de Caractères
> > Small                         Petit
> > Medium                     Normal
> > Large                        Grand
> > Entire Bible                Le plein bible   (or) Le Bible Entire
> > New Testament         Nouveau Testament
> > Old Testament           Vieux Testament
> > Gospels                     Les évangiles
> > Search From              Cherché de ....
> > Beginning                  Comencement
> > Current Chapter         Chapitre actuel
> > Each word                 Chaque mot
> Yes
> No
>
>
> > Here are the words I can offer with just a chance a French speaker
> > would understand them!  I have no idea how to say 'Case' (sensitive
> > or insensitive) - that's a bit too technical for me.  And there are no
> > absolute guarantees with the ones I have offered above.  Hope this
> > helps!  I can't imagine how to say 'All words or any' either.  Sorry,
> > but my limited French gets me food in supermarkets, and meals in
> > restaurants and that type of thing.
> >
>
> > God bless,
> > Barry
>
> Also, anyone with adequate Spanish, German, Dutch, Swahili, etc.: please
> send in your translations of the above words/phrases and/or contact me :-)
>
> For His glory and honor,
> Lynn A.
> l.allan@att.net
>
>
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