Re: [libreoffice-l10n] l10n process, en_US version, Help files

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Stanislav Horáček
<stanislav.horacek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > - but that doesn't solve the several typos that already exist and that
> > are overlooked by the l10n team (e.g in the Character > Font Effect
> > dialog, there is Overline _c_olor and Underline _C_olor and this is the
> > same for several dialogs)
>
>
> It would be worth to create a wiki page that summarizes all these rules - LO
> should use the Gnome rules (AFAIK), but there is a lot of specific issues:
> for example, descriptions of Calc functions in UI are quite messy because of
> different wording ("Returns...", "Calculates...", "Value of...") or
> parameter names (capitalization etc.).
> Of course the UX team should be also involved.

It is OK to fix new strings, also it is OK to fix obvious typos
anywhere. But we should refrain from re-phrasing old messages. It
would make a lot of unnecessary work for translators, and loss of
translation for unmaintaned languages. IMHO we have more important
things to do, than unify ("Returns...", "Calculates...", "Value
of...") or ("cannot", "couldn't", "could not") or whatever.

Best regards,
Andras

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