• Subject: Re: French Terms
  • From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:47:00 -0700

At 03:08 AM 09/20/1999 -0400, you wrote:

The easiest way to get the definitive answer on this is to order French 
(2928), and install it on your system as a secondary language.  I have done 
this in the past, and it works well.  There are some code page issues as I 
remember, but I am unclear on this point.

Al


>Leif,
>
>Here are some translations from a french OS/400 :
>
>1) "special authority"    -> Droits spéciaux
>2) "user profile"            -> profil utilisateur
>4) "security administrator"    -> administrateur de la sécurité
>5) "command line"    ->ligne de commande
>
>
>Number 7) could translated by "tierce partie".
>Number 6) could be loosely translated by "transactions à distance".
>Don't know about number 4).
>
>hth
>
>Michel Sabourin
>msabourin@cascades.com
>
> >>> <leif@ibm.net> 99-09-18 10:58:01 >>>
>I'm helping with a translation of an AS/400 manual into French.
>To make sure that we have all the technical terms correct (in the
>sense of conforming to what IBM uses in their French manuals)
>I went to IBM's web site for the AS/400. And even if there
>WAS an option to select a French language version, the text
>was in English regardless. Could someone guide me to
>where a French version might be lurking, or help me out
>with a few words:
>1) "special authority"
>2) "user profile"
>3) "exit point"   "exit program"
>4) "security administrator"
>5) "command line"
>6) "remote transactions"
>7) "third-party"
>
>thanks.
>It is lousy that IBM lets one down here.
>
>--
>
>Leif Svalgaard
>
>
>
>Leif Svalgaard
>
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