Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [Pootle] Translation help for unit 40270452

Hi Thomas, list,

sorry for being late to the show -

Thomas Hackert wrote:
> <quote>
> With several legacy pre-ODF1.2 and ODF1.2-only consumers out there, 
> users wanted a more backward-compatible ODF 1.2 extended mode, that 
> uses stuff deprecated in 1.2, and/or is 'bug-compatible' to older 
> OpenOffice.org versions. Therefore the ODF 1.2 Extended (compat) 
> mode was introduced.
> </quote>
Happy to have this text thrown out the window, torn to pieces &
rewritten - technically, what happens are two things when 1.2 extended
compat is chosen:

 - we fallback to older, pre-1.2 encryption and signature algorithms,
   that were deprecated in ODF 1.2
 - be bug-compatible to OOo and AOO for writing svg:d paths (that is
   used for polygons, e.g. on freeform curves or custom shapes in
   Impress)
 - plus future additions to this set

All of this, as others outlined, to get slightly better interop with
older / less conformant ODF consumers. We don't default to that
option, since it would knowingly create substandard ODF files - we
rather encourage other applications to fix their bugs.

Since this is likely to be used for additional things found to cause
problems, or if/when we fix additional bugs in our ODF export, simply
listing the above items appeared not ideal to me. Usually it is
forgotten to update help, better use a generic text. ;)

Hope that explains a bit, cheers,

-- Thorsten

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