I am tasked with preparations of technical negotiations with a foreign company where the technicans' native language is Russian. I would like to have a technical dictionary for terms specific to the IT industry, more specifically the networking and management segments to be able to translate things like
- software package
- network switch
- ip address
- settings dialog
- property
into widely-understood and unambiguous Russian counterparts. Where would I ask/look for one?
My trouble with general-purpose dictionaries is that their translation proposals, if applicable at all, often are extremely cumbersome and poorly understood. Anybody who has seen a badly localized application should instantly know, what I mean. And for those who haven't:
Is this your idea of a broken pipe
?
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message catalogs in /usr/share/locale. You can view the English and translated version withmsgunfmt file.mo | msgcat -
. This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but if you end up having to do it yourself, it may provide you with some useful words and phrases. GNU coreutils has "Broken pipe" as "Обрыв канала".