GENERATING LOCALIZED USER INTERFACES

• US 20140006004A1
• Filed: 10/05/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Delucchi, Agustin Da Fieno, Gundepuneni, Mahender, Riis Hansen, Anders, Goldschmidt, Daniel, Shimoaraiso, Toshio
• Application Number:
  US13/645,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006004A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

Adaptation rules are prepared and applied against a parent language string in order to adapt the parent language string to a parent language variant. Previous adaptation translations are first used and then un-adapted translation units are matched against the adaptation rules that are applied to adapt the translation units. To design or text a user interface, a set of translation candidates is obtained for a source language string and one of the translation candidates is selected based on its size. The area of the selected translation candidate is calculated and a pseudo-localized string is generated based on the calculated area for the selected translation candidate. The pseudo-localized string is then used in generating or testing user interface displays.

Claims

11. A computer-implemented method of generating a user interface display element, comprising:

sending a source string in a source language to a translation size service;

receiving, from the translation size service, a size indicator indicating a size, in display units, of a translation candidate, the translation candidate being a translation of the source string into a target string in a target language;

generating a string with a display size corresponding to the size indicator; and

generating the user interface display element with an element size based on the generated string.

1. A computer-implemented method of adapting a parent document in a parent language to an adapted document in a variant language that is a variant of the parent language, comprising:

receiving the parent document;

executing a computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process to obtain the adapted document; and

displaying the adapted document in the variant of the parent language.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein executing the computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process, comprises:

identifying an un-adapted translation unit in the parent document;

matching the identified un-adapted translation unit against a plurality of adaptation rules to identify a matching adaptation rule; and

copying an adapted unit from the matching adaptation rule into the parent document, for the identified un-adapted translation unit.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein executing the computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process, comprises:

determining whether the matching adaptation rule is to be reviewed;

if so, setting a review status indicator; and

displaying the adapted unit in the adapted document with a visual indicator indicating it is to be reviewed.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein executing the computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process, comprises:

receiving any editing inputs to edit the adapted unit; and

receiving a reset input resetting the review status indicator to indicate that no further review is needed.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 and further comprising:

displaying a rules input user interface display; and

receiving the adaptation rules through the rules input user interface display.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein receiving the adaptation rules comprises:

receiving a scope input corresponding to each given adaptation rule, the scope input indicating a scope of application of each given adaptation rule to un-adapted translation units in the parent document.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 wherein executing the computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process, comprises:

after copying the adapted unit from the matching adaptation rule, validating that the matching adaptation rule was applied with a scope indicated by the scope of application corresponding to the matching adaptation rule.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein executing the computer-implemented, rule-driven adaptation process, comprises:

before matching the identified un-adapted translation unit against a plurality of adaptation rules, accessing an adaptation translation store to determine whether the identified un-adapted translation unit has already been adapted to the variant language and stored in the adaptation translation store; and

if so, copying the adapted unit from the adaptation translation store into the parent document, for the identified un-adapted translation unit.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 and further comprising:

calculating a size, in display units, of the adapted unit; and

sending the size to a pseudo-localized string generator for generation of a pseudo-localized string for verifying design of a user interface display.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 wherein calculating a size comprises:

identifying a font used for the variant language; and

calculating an area of the adapted unit based on the identified font.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein generating a string comprises:

generating a pseudo-localized string with characters sized so the display size of the pseudo-localized string conforms to the size indicated by the size indicator.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 wherein generating the user interface display element comprises:

generating an element that displays text with a size that accommodates display of the pseudo-localized string.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein generating a user interface display element comprises:

designing a textual display element, or text to be displayed, on a user interface display.

14-1. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 wherein generating a user interface display element comprises:

testing a textual display element on a user interface display.

15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a source string in a source language, from a client;

obtaining a translation of the source string into a target string in a target language;

calculating a size of the target string, in display units; and

sending the size of the target string to the client.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 wherein receiving the source string comprises:

receiving a context of the source string.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 wherein obtaining a translation comprises:

obtaining a set of translation candidates for the source string.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17 wherein 17 wherein calculating a size comprises:

identifying a font based on the target language;

calculating an area, in display units, corresponding to each of the translation candidates in the set based on the identified font; and

comparing the translation candidates based on the corresponding area and context, to select a given translation candidate, wherein the size comprises the area corresponding to the given translation candidate.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein the given translation candidate is chosen as the translation candidate having the largest corresponding area.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 17 wherein obtaining the set of translation candidates comprises:

obtaining the set of translation candidates from an existing translation store.