What is Microsofts French term for “status bar” or “print preview”?
Naturally, you want your French application to have a similar look and feel to Microsoft’s French applications (OK, maybe you don’t). So you will want to know what Microsoft calls the status bar in French, and the French menu item for Print Preview. Microsoft is nice enough to provide glossaries of all the words and phrases used in their applications, along with the translated term in many different languages. The files are available for free from Microsoft’s Web site (but they are quite large), and they are available on MSDN (international pack at least). What you get are comma-separated value (CSV) files for each application (Word, Excel, Outlook, Visual C++, Windows 98, Windows 2K, IE, etc.) in many different languages. You can easily search these files (using VC++ “Find in Files” search, works great) to see, for example, Microsoft’s French term for “Disk I/O Error”. The better translation tools will be able to import these glossaries and use them to assist in translation of terms i
