Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-l10n] Help text for MIDB

Hi,

I agree that these examples are really useful. Could you provide also 
some examples for the other functions dealing with DBCS (LEFTB, RIGHTB, 
LENB)?
If so, I will add them to the Help text.

Thanks!
Stanislav


Dne 19.1.2015 v 16:11 Jesper Hertel napsal(a):
> 2015-01-19 15:32 GMT+01:00 Kevin Suo <suokunlong@126.com>:
>
> > A1 = "中国"
> > B1 = MIDB(A1,1,1) returns ""
> > B1 = MIDB(A1,1,2) returns "中"
> > B1 = MIDB(A1,1,3) returns "中"
> > B1 = MIDB(A1,1,4) returns "中国"
>
> Thanks for the examples, Kevin! I was afraid they wouldn't go through the
> maling list system, so that was why I didn't supply any. But yours are even
> better than the ones I would have thought of providing.
>
>
> > I think it is better up to the localizer to translate this help text
> > according to their needs, for example Japanese team may show how this works
> > with Japanese chars.
>
> I agree that the specific translation is up to the localizers. But even
> people using a non-DBCS user interface language, such as English or Danish,
> could want to use that function and could want to know what it is about and
> how to use it; they could work with Japanese or another DBCS language
> without having the user interface in that language. So I still believe the
> English text could be improved. Both regarding the earlier mentioned
> sentence and regarding the addition of several actual DBCS examples similar
> to the good ones you provided. Maybe just worded and expanded like this to
> show that the position argument is also counted in bytes and not in
> character positions:
>
> MIDB("中国",1,1) returns "" (1 byte is only half a character and it is
> therefore discarded).
> MIDB("中国",1,2) returns "中" (2 bytes are one complete character).
> MIDB("中国",1,3) returns "中" (3 bytes are one character and a half; the last
> byte is discarded).
> MIDB("中国",1,4) returns "中国" (4 bytes are two complete characters).
> MIDB("中国",2,1) returns "" (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a
> character).
> MIDB("中国",2,2) returns "" (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a
> character).
> MIDB("中国",3,1) returns "" (byte position 3 is at the beginning of a
> character, but 1 byte is only half a character and is therefore discarded).
> MIDB("中国",3,2) returns "国".
>
>
> And yes, I do believe that this rather large amount of examples are
> necessary to make it completely clear how this rather technical function
> works, and that the Help should be the place for such an explanation.
>
> Whether my explanations in parentheses are understandable or relevant I
> don't know. It is an attempt to explain what is happening to the
> not-so-technical users, but even also to technical users that want to be
> sure they understood it right.
>
>
> Jesper

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