Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

Dňa 31.12.2011 13:56, Andras Timar  wrote / napísal(a):
> 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.
No, it is not different.

So, I corrected the translation to the accusative case without the
capital letter. I could have done that also earlier (thanks to KeyId),
but I was not sure if these string were used elsewhere in a different
context (say, in nominative) or not. Now I know :)
Thanks

Milos


> 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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