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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: Maybe you think CoPilot 4 is Multilanguage...
... and you are wrong.
CoPilot is an excellent software, custom map creation is wonderful and Navtech maps are very accurate.
Unfortunately, if you didnt't speak English you could experience some troubles (even big ones).
I purchased Copilot 4 PPC (4.04.107) a month ago, I'm Italian and here is my story:
1) installation program kindly asks what is the preferred language, I answer “Italiano”. Results: installation continues with a mix of English and French!
2) the PC program shows a quite unusable combination of English and Italian, because many items are not translated and appear with an additional “[Trans]” label at the beginning. Many other entries are bad translated and/or they are too long and overfit the available space (for instance, button “Planning” has been replaced by “Pianificazione”, but the (correct) translation doesn’t match with button dimension, so, in the button label “anificazio” is shown)
3) the PPC program suffers the same problems. Moreover, the PPC screen is smaller and long/untranslated strings are more and more upsetting….
I was disconcerted… I paid 200 pound to buy a software that a half of my family couldn’t use…
After the panic, I decided to fix the problem by myself. I found the language database analyzing the files that CoPilot installs.
These are the numbers:
In conclusion Copilot supports:
97% German, 98% French, 65% Italian, 96% Spanish, 0% Danish, 8% Swedish.
I also tried to rank translation quality (string dimension + meaning):
German Good, French Sufficient, Italian Poor, Spanish Sufficient, Danish ?!?, Swedish ?!?
Finally, I modified the language database. Now, “my” version of Copilot 4 supports 100% Italian with correct graphics and meaning.
I contacted ALK proposing an agreement in order to distribute this database. Up to now, no answer has been received.
Meanwhile, if any Italian costumers need the database I’ll be happy to send it for free (250kb, please provide an email).
Aren’t you Italian but would you like to modify language database too? I’ll be more than happy to help you in the following of the thread.
Paolo
PS: In addition, I read a topic where someone says italian men don't like to be told what to do by a woman.... actually, copilot 4 only supports male wave!!!!
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