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Looking for a Style Guide (FR) for computing

Sandra Sol Rodrigo
Spain
French to Spanish
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Jul 4

I need to translate a software from English or Spanish into French and I need a Style guide because I have some problems in translating thing like errors and expressions.

I got a style guide from the microsoft site but I keep on having problems with the espressions like "Please, contact with the technical service".

Thank you very much,
Sandra

Tobia P
English to Italian

Sun localization style guides

Jul 5

Maybe you could also can try the
Sun localization style guides

Tobia

Sandra Sol Rodrigo
Spain
French to Spanish
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Sun Style guide

Jul 7

Thank you Tobia for your information. I think the Sun Style Guide will be very helpful

Marc Sejourné

Ireland
English to French

Microsoft TM

Jul 7

On the same topic, I would like to know if it is possible to download a TM from Microsoft. I am translating from English to French, but this is a general question. Thanks in advance for your reply.

mariale125
Peru
English to Spanish

Glossary in excel format

Jul 7

I don't know if you already know about this site or if it can help you both, I'll give you the link anyway, just in case. In the following link you can download an excel file containing Microsoft terminology in different languages.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/MILSGlossary.mspx

You can erase the introductory part and the columns with the languages you don't need, then you will be able to create a glossary using Multiterm or create a TM just following the tips gven in this thread

http://www.proz.com/forum/sdl_trados_support/59306-creating_tm_by_aligning_excel_rows.html

HTH

Sandra Sol Rodrigo
Spain
French to Spanish
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About de Microsoft glossary

Jul 8

Hi!

this glossary from Microsoft is great! Thank you so much!

Just say that the French column is more complete than the Catalan one and the Spanish one.

Sandra

Marc Sejourné

Ireland
English to French

Brillant!

Jul 8

These are the resources I could not retrieve. Thx a million Mariale.

Tobia P
English to Italian

Microsoft TMs

Jul 8

if you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription, you can download the TMs for Microsoft products, see http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftterminologyforum/archive/2008/07/02/microsoft-glossary-and-termin ology-database-access.aspx

The problem with the glossary list is that it does not specify which product(s) the translations apply to.

mariale125
Peru
English to Spanish

Tobia, this is a very useful link

Jul 9

Marc and Sandra, you're welcome!

Tobia, you make me remember that I downloaded the spanish guide style from the microsoft language portal a long time ago. I'd forgotten about it ... until now.

I didn't know about the search tool, thanks for the tip. It is great, you just write a term, chose a language and you get the terminology related, its translation and definition.

Sandra, you can download the french guide style. In chapter 3 you'll find grammar guidelines and in chapter 4 (Specific localization guidelines) you'll find the recommended expressions for error messages, for instances, and much more.

Right:
Impossible d'enregistrer le document.

Wrong:
Le document ne peut pas être enregistré.

Bye

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