So the names of the options literally translate to:
Row Above
Row insert beneath
Colums Left
Insert Column Right
Not only are they named inconsistently and only partially translated. The capitalization is also seemingly random.
This is why even though English is my second language I will set software to be in English, I know any translations into my primary language will use weird and uncommon phrases (also makes debugging harder)
Also makes searching for answers to problems easier.
Yeah that’s partly what I meant by debugging
This even works for keyboards. Many shortcuts that use the /-key for example didn’t work before I started to use qwerty instead of localized keyboards.
I remember switching from German QWERTZ to US QWERTY, as a dev, and suddenly putting all these brackets became so much easier and it all made sense. On German layout you need Alt Gr. A lot (which is Alt + CTRL)
Commenting lines works out of the box on qwerty, whaat . And for the Umlauts i have it set to using the dead key layout because it is tkl and has no right alt key. And I didn’t know that you could emulate alt gr with alt+space. Thanks!
I’m on Mac so for umlaut I can just hold the vocal and pick the umlaut version of it. Similar to mobile devices . But usually I just type oe or ae etc.
I use Macos/linux at home and win at work. And all with the same keyboard, because it has a dedicated macOS and win/normal mode. And yeah, the us intl. keyboard works across win/Linux, but I dislike having the hyphens key as a dead key so i only really use it at work where I can’t skip umlauts. In private I don’t really need them and should the day come I’ll copy them from ddg or something.
I dislike having the hyphens key as a dead key
Yeah, that sucks. You can have the best of both worlds in Linux by using the US keyboard with the “English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)” keyboard variant. This way, all your qwerty keys will work normally, but you can tell it a key combination is coming up by tapping AltGr. So you can for instance type <AltGr> + <"> + <u> to make ü or <AltGr> + <s> + <s> for ß. If I remember correctly, there is a way to make Windows do the same.
And in KDE at least, you can use any key you like to perform the function of AltGr. I suppose other DE’s can do the same.
Smart. I’ve always wondered what it does.
does it work with the alt + space shortcut for alt gr if I’m missing altgr or any right alt on my keyboard ?Edit: Didn’t read correctly. Thanks !
I develop software products and we put so much attention into how we design and arrange them, including the naming of things.
Then we send everything off for batch translation by some service that probably doesn’t give a flying fuck because they’re just using AI anyway. And we have no way to check their work because we don’t speak all the languages.
I wish we could have in-house people for this.
I remember when IBM translated hard disks as “rigid disks” in French for some reason, in defiance of the established usage.
You can’t expect a billion dollar company to employ a translator.
There’s a very good reason for this.
Microsoft’s localization team is just three monolinguals and Copilot. And the monolinguals are all managers.
I’m assuming OP is forced to use Microsoft’s shit at their job but for everyone else:
I’m using Libre Office at my job. Whenever I can get away with it I use the open document format as well.
Yeah, Microsoft fucking sucks. German has ~95 million speakers and is one of the most spoken languages of the world. And Microsoft, one of the most profitable companies in the world can’t be bothered to even do some minor translation work. I don’t even expect them to translate every help document on their page, but menu items in the main ribbon? And Edge is showing totally garbled weather infos on every new page. To millions of people. Because they don’t want to hire one or two guys to proofread their texts.
Localized Office is a big heaping pile of trash. In my language in Teams you need to toggle “Show number” on, to hide showing your number. Make it make sense.
In German, Teams used to show people as “kostenlos” which does mean “free” but in the sense of “free of charge”, not “available”. They fixed it eventually but it caused much confusion with people asking if there are times when the calls are not free of charge.
My personal Teams translation highlight was a hint explaining to me how I could reorder a list. It said “Nachbestellung hier”. Which again does mean “reorder here” but reorder as in the thing you do when you buy the same thing again, a repeat order.
Some Windows 11 versions had translated ZIP (i think the archive format) as postal code in not US English. Not even English is safe.
Yup, same! Our agents don’t make themselves “available”, they make themselves “free of charge” (gratis)
I’ll have to check the reorder one, but that’s funny too. Billion dollar company!
