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

Hello Thorsten, *,
On Samstag, 22. Juni 2013 03:05 Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> sorry for being late to the show -

this could happen ... ;)

> 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:

Does it mean, that this is available in Pootle to translate?

> - 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

O.K.

> 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.

O.K.

> 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.
> ;)

O.K.

> Hope that explains a bit, cheers,

It does :)
Thank you for your answer
Thomas.

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