Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011/12/31 Martin Srebotnjak <miles@filmsi.net>:
> I guess the conservatism of OOo team when designing UI with those UI spec
> documents was a good thing and this should be in a way incorporated in the
> LO development process, even if with a lower administration impact on
> developers - but there should be some l10n representative checking ALL the
> proposed changes of UI strings - that they are logical and that they are
> localizable in all 100+ languages. Only then they could be checked in.

No, that would effectively kill productivity. It is better to catch
issues in beta phase. Not to mention that the UI approved by a
comittee in the Sun era still resulted crap. See the history of
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/history/core/cui/source/dialogs/insrc.src,
it is Mihkels example. This file has not been touched by LibreOffice
developers.

> So, Andras, will you take care of these two string-formations in the code
> for 3.5, the one reported by Milos and the one by Mihkel? Or do we have to
> adapt our translations according to "what the author of code wanted to
> say"? Time for 3.5 is running out I guess.

I don't understand why anyone needs to adapt translations for Milos' example.

We have "Delete $1" and "Format $1" where $1 can be "Header" or
"Footer". Those are STR_HEADER and STR_FOOTER from
sw/source/ui/docvw/docvw.src and are not used anywhere else, so you
can translate them as you need to fit into the "Delete $1" context. I
hope the translation for "Header" or "Footer" is not different
depending on if you delete it or if format it.

As for the Insert Rows/Columns modal dialog, it was a good catch that
needs to be fixed. But if it have been good enough for the last couple
of years, then I don't think we need to urgently fix it in 3.5 and
break the string freeze. Let's fix it in master. What do you think?

Best regards,
Andras

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