for supporting different language structure...

hmm, Ya. partly right. that can be a litteral translation but that can't be a good translation.

english can be ok even when we change structure a little, there are a few languages that cannot be ok.

I can make my own. but that's not the best way, I think. every version-up edition comes out, I'll have to make it.

As you know, we Korean have a lot of board systems because of internet system development, But I'd say all most of them are too heavy and no other language pack.

sometimes we use phpbb because it has Korean languae pack. phpbb uses language structure not word-for-word translation.

--; That cannot be applied to my mother lanuage, anyhow.

I really appreciate your concern, any way, Paul.

It does seem that jacobswell misunderstood Paul here. Paul was agreeing to the problem and merely suggesting a solution to Rickard, the example was made up randomly just for the sake of illustrating a possible difference.

With the Chinese language pack, I've came up against word order problems, too. I was able to adapt most of it, since Chinese really has a very loose structure. But I do agree that localization should not be based on words but on full sentences or even paragraphs/messages as a whole.

When basing translations on words, word order is not the only problem. Sometimes a more serious problem is word meaning. A word XYZ that has meaning A and B in English, and hence has it's translation string shared in two places, may be completely un-acceptable in another language, where the meanings A and B simply has to use different words PQR and STU. Lastly, a problem that doesn't come up all the time in technical translation, is when there are non-translatable words or phrases (this is more likely to occur when there is a lot of cultural content).

Fortunately, PunBB (and software localization in general) does not use a lot of complex and compound sentences. Most of the problems described above can be solved with a little creativity on the part of the translator, or experience and study, which may not always be available when it comes to voluntary localization of free software.

PS: I work as a translator between Chinese and English.