Hi Mikel, *
Von: Mikel Pascual - Akaita <mikel@akaita.com>
I checked about a dozen languages, and almost everybody translates
"%PRODUCTNAME Writer" (for example) as "%PRODUCTNAME Writer".
And I'm wondering... why is that so?
Because people are used to do it that way :)
Is that a directive from the steering comittee?
No - and honestly I don't want the SC to get involved in that discussion.
It should be up to the local teams how they translate the module names. But
I'd personally strongly recommend *not* translating module / application
names, as they are just that: names.
There is also a marketing / product acceptance aspect. E.g. at consumer
events, we (in Germany) often get the Question "Do you have am equivalent to
PowerPoint?" We cannot just say that we have a "Module for presentation
files". People (who are used to MSO) think of *applications* not of file formats.
But this might be different for differnt local markets. So if your users
already think in file type terms - or have problems with the english
module names - you should be free to translate module names.
As Goran mentioned this is quite similar to the extension names that should
not have been translated. German team took the liberty to translate the
"Report Builder" to "Bericht-Designer", as "Report Builder" is quite
meaningless in German.
regards,
André
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- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) (continued)
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Michael Bauer
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Cheng-Chia Tseng
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Mikel Pascual - Akaita
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Mihkel Tõnnov
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Mikel Pascual - Akaita
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Marek Laane
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Mihkel Tõnnov
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Mikel Pascual - Akaita
- Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Marek Laane
Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...) · Olav Dahlum
Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base,...) · Andre Schnabel
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