Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Cosmetic changes? (was Workflow based on master)

Hi Yury, all
Le 14/12/2014 07:41, Yury Tarasievich a écrit :
> On 12/14/2014 09:19 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> ...
> > But that was not my point, I was complaining about people who think that
> > consistency, following linguistic rules and proper typography are usless
> > cosmetics. Regardless of how localisation will be done or what
> > language is
> ...
>
> Then you completely misunderstood the point of localisers, and defeated
> a strawman.
>
> It's commendable to strive for proper typography in the source etc.
>
> But the translation may have had the proper typography (for its language
> context) first time, couldn't it?
>
> However, localisers (why did you quote the term, anyway?) have to redo
> the work already (properly) done, repeatedly. Reviewing and approving 1k
> of strings isn't peanuts, whatever one may think.
>
> To put it into context assuredly familiar to you - how would you like to
> have to redo from scratch one specific curve in the font, verbatim,
> several times? Would it strike you as a not quite an optimal way to
> spend the time you dedicate to open projects?
>
> And I have yet to see those technical marvels we've been promised will
> compensate for this problem (promised with lot of eff-ing at silly
> localisers, by the way).

Hey, those scripts are done by people to help us, so don't shout on
them. We will discuss these heavy changes after the code/string freeze
with developers and designers. We have to find a way that allow to
maintain the sources without impacting the targets when it's not needed,
let's try to find a solution and keep working in a good mood.

Cheers
Sophie

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