Quick Translation / 快速翻译 / Traducción rápida / 速い翻訳 / ترجمة سريع

wdkblog — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:48:00 GMT

Need a quick translation of a page from the WDK documentation? You’ll find a handy solution on Windows Live, which has two ways to get an immediate translation of a page—a form and a button.

· The form takes one or two seconds to translate whatever block of text you paste into it, and doesn’t require the installation of any software. You can use it to translate Web pages or offline content, such as a page from your help viewer.

· The translator button is equally fast, and has the advantage of giving side-by-side translation. An entire Web page of source language is in a pane on the left and the target language is in a pane on the right. Select a sentence on one side and you will see the corresponding sentence on the other side highlighted, which is helpful for finding the right text in an unfamiliar language. The button requires installation of the Live toolbar but this is a quick and easy process.

To get the translator button, you’ll first need to install the Live toolbar. Then install the translator button as an add-on to the toolbar. When you come to a Web page you want to translate, simply click the button.

A great feature of the translator button is that when you navigate in one language by following a link to another page, the opposite language updates immediately with a translated view of the new page. And because the translated side allows you to navigate within it, you can browse through the WDK documentation entirely in a translated language. You effectively get an instant translation of the whole document collection.

The languages in which you can now read about the WDK include Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Because translations are generated on the fly by an automated system, you’ll find that the accuracy isn’t perfect. But you’ll probably find they are helpful, and they’re free and easy to do.

Give it a try, and let us know what you think.

John Osborne [MSFT], WDK Technical Writer

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Quick Translation / 快速翻译 / Traducción rápida / 速い翻訳 / ترجمة سريع