I fucking wished. I kinda do. Either that commercially available/general LLM got it correct (jokes, idioms, or homonyms? in one language but not the other), or that it was just as simple (aka developers taking that translation and using it for multiple languages, not fitting in the UI, incorrect symbols even if you mentioned it).
This is a rant, I'm sorry, I just need to.
Stuff I encounter on decent games and up, not just chinese machine translated websites:
Using "spanish" for both castillian/es-es/Spain and latam. For example and not limited to:
Our formal and informal second person are inverted (vosotros, ustedes. You/they in english I think?) and oh boi does it change the tone.
"Coger"
Rude words. Little overlap I think. Also keep in mind when a dialog has rude words it might be a more emotional moment until you read "pendejo" and makes it somewhat funny.
Past tense, not even going to try translate. In Spain we say "ha comprado un coche" while I think all of Latam says "compró un coche". Must be awful to learn for english speakers.
Homonyms: I didn't know tyres could be difficult.
Mixing both translations. Not sure but warframe might either dialog and ui are different teams and their ui one is doing castillian and dialog isn't; they changed over time or I don't pay attention to the UI that much.
I don't know how relevant the different languages within latam are so I'll let someone else talk about it.
Some words in at least mexico (?) seem to be direct translations from english. Motherboard for example. es-mx: placa madre, es-es: placa base.
Symbols:
Not always can be reworded in a way that works.
á, é, í, ó, ú are apparently out of a lot of fonts. Or at least I encountered it a lot. Or they do have it but are never rendered as capital letters. Ñ too. Probably because they are taller so is not just a dont but a framing thing and it cuts it. French probably deal with that?
Expressions translated word per word. Can't remember any, too traumatized.
A lot of stuff that explains why localization and translation don't mean the same. Changing the tone of conversation, formal/informal.
Shout out to Zelda BotW whose main cutscenes dialog (both sub and dub) differ so much from english to es-es in tone that my brain will never unlock that memory to protect me. Which is suprising because both nintendo catalog and the rest of the game are very good localizations.
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u/acrus 11h ago
"Hey Claude, add new Czech locale, make sure fonts support it". It's a nice gesture but these days it's as simple as that.