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June 18, 2013
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  • June 18, 2013
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I just tested Japanese error messages in forms and found it to be a little bit awkward. I was wondering how the translations are in other languages. Are users overwriting some messages using JavaScripts?

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I second Nicole.

You can define your own messages until your suggestions are incorporated: 

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000KysCCAS

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June 18, 2013
If you have better alternatives, I'm sure our proudct managers would love to hear about them.
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June 18, 2013
I second Nicole.

You can define your own messages until your suggestions are incorporated: 

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000KysCCAS
June 18, 2013
We just defined our own using the instructions in the link posted above. Works well.
June 18, 2013
@Nicole, @bgomes - The original message in English is "Please select a value for this field". The Japanese message is a sentence fragment without a "please".

English:"This field is required"
Current Japanese:"このフィールドは必須です"
Suggested Japanese:"必須フィールドです"



English:"Please select a value for this field"
Current Japanese: "値を選択" <- sentence fragment
Suggested Japanese:"選択してください"

English:"Please enter a valid email address" Current Japanese:"有効なEメールアドレスを入力してください" <- Japanese don't say email
Suggested Japanese:正しいメールアドレスを入力してください"

I’m not sure where telephone validation is occuring because it seems to be accepting all text. I can't get the current Japanese translations to these. Nevertheless, here are my suggested Japanese translations:

English: "Please enter a valid telephone number",
Suggested Japanese: "正しい電話番号を入力してください"

English : "Please wait"
Suggested Japanese:"少々お待ちください"


June 22, 2013
Hitoshi, thank you so much for giving feedback on the translations. I'll have your suggested translations incorporated into an upcoming release.

Best, Ei-Mang
June 23, 2013
Ei-Mang, thank you. Will be looking forward to it. :-)
June 23, 2013
Ei-Mang,

BTW, if Marketo is working on localizing Marketo to Japanese, I would be more than willing to take part in the Beta test.
June 26, 2013
Hitoshi, thanks so much for offering to help beta test. I will add your name to the list. Best, Ei-Mang
August 12, 2013
Hitoshi, just a heads up that your suggested changes to the Japanese form error messages will be going live with the August release which is scheduled for next week. Thanks again for your help! Ei-Mang