Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...)

2011/8/2 Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>

> If this ever was to get implemented, it would have to be well thought
> through. At the moment you can get away with strings like "Open in %s" which
> then turns into "Open in LO Writer" and it looks ok even in many heavily
> inflected languages but then moment something like Spreadsheet becomes
> "Cliath-dhuilleag" (in Scots Gaelic in my case), then it gets complicated
> because depending on the context, that would have to show up as
> "Chliath-dhuilleag" "Cliath-duilleige" and "Chliath-dhuilleige".
>
> So far, I haven't come across a l10n project that takes morphology beyong
> plural rules and though I'd really really love more morphology rules, I
> suspect they might be long in the coming. So even if "Spredsheet" was up for
> translation I suspect I would stick with the English term for now.
Just a remark: in KDE there is something called pology which is specially
for such languages which have many cases. But so far IMO only a few
languages are using this...



> My tuppence worth :)
>
> le meas,
>
> Michael
>
> 02/08/2011 01:26, sgrìobh Mikel Pascual - Akaita:
>
> > Gnome, VLC, Openshot,... obviously are product names, and obviously
> > shouldn't be translated.
> > The same thing goes for "LibreOffice"; that clearly shouldn't be
> > translated.
> >
> > "Writer?", "Base?",... I guess most groups decided that they should keep
> > them, but some DID translate those, so: "Why do we have this discussion at
> > all?", obviously 'cause it's not clear at all and I understand that
> > Marketing, Translating and Steering should decide about it and tell all
> > translators. I think that's the wise thing to do.
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