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Re: Numbers or Letters when labeling a graphic?

Subject: Re: Numbers or Letters when labeling a graphic?
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: grant -at- hedgewizard -dot- net, sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:06:09 -0700

Asian language instruction manuals generally use a hybrid "technical"Â language in which Arabic numbers and even English text are mixed in for labels, model designations or terminology for which no native language version exists.

Example here:

https://www.sony.net/Products/CameraSystem/NVMS/manual/docs/NVMS_Standard_AdministratorManual_2016_R3_Rev_2_ja-JP.pdf

Gene Kim-Eng


On 4/23/2018 7:27 PM, grant -at- hedgewizard -dot- net wrote:

Not unreasonable points, but if you follow that logic, then your
numbers should be translated as well. Not all languages natively use
Arabic numbers. (Japanese, for example.)


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Re[2]: Numbers or Letters when labeling a graphic?: From: Grant Hogarth
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