December 4, 2005
Aperture: Book Ordering
Ordering a book I was presented with the following two dialog boxes. Clearly this application was not made in Cupertino. I have no idea if the order was sent to Apple, if it’s still uploading or if it was canceled. There’s no progress dialog. Just these two dialogs… And they’re all Greek Japanese to me. Anyone have an idea what they say? I’m a little surprised Apple would ship Aperture without all the translations done.
Dashboard’s translation widget gives me this on the second dialog box: “Receiving ?? ? The mark network path connected line, after the nature “heavily under test” one it is heavy the new sending? Plan.”
Plan, indeed.
They are Chinese, not Japanese.
The first dialog box says 'connecting'.
The second dialog box says that 'error occurs when uploading one of your files'. The next line says that 'please check your network connection, then press "try again" to send your file again'. The white button is 'cancel', and the grey button is 'try again'.
That looks to be Chinese, not Japanese.
The application was indeed written in Cupertino. I know people on the team.
This is a localization glitch. File a report at bugreport.apple.com
Incidentally, that looks like Traditional Chinese.
-jcr
The Japanese dialog doesn't mean Aperture wasn't created in Cupertino... it's just a bug in accessing the proper dialog box for the installed language.
Thanks so much. After some blind trial and error I got the book uploaded. It's not so user friendly to be missing an upload progress dialog. I had no idea if it was still uploading or if it had crapped out without launching ettercap.
After 45 minutes Aperture popped up another Chinese dialog with what I assumed was my order number. Two minutes later I received the automated order acknowledgment email from Apple.
It's interesting the Chinese translators in the translation widget produced nothing. Only the Japanese produced what appeared to be readable.
I get the same problem ordering prints in aperture on a mac mini core duo. This is the last straw for me...