Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Libreoffice products name (writer, cal, base, ...)

If this ever was to get implemented, it would have to be well thought 
through. At the moment you can get away with strings like "Open in %s" 
which then turns into "Open in LO Writer" and it looks ok even in many 
heavily inflected languages but then moment something like Spreadsheet 
becomes "Cliath-dhuilleag" (in Scots Gaelic in my case), then it gets 
complicated because depending on the context, that would have to show up 
as "Chliath-dhuilleag" "Cliath-duilleige" and "Chliath-dhuilleige".

So far, I haven't come across a l10n project that takes morphology 
beyong plural rules and though I'd really really love more morphology 
rules, I suspect they might be long in the coming. So even if 
"Spredsheet" was up for translation I suspect I would stick with the 
English term for now.

My tuppence worth :)

le meas,

Michael

02/08/2011 01:26, sgrìobh Mikel Pascual - Akaita:
> Gnome, VLC, Openshot,... obviously are product names, and obviously
> shouldn't be translated.
> The same thing goes for "LibreOffice"; that clearly shouldn't be translated.
>
> "Writer?", "Base?",... I guess most groups decided that they should keep
> them, but some DID translate those, so: "Why do we have this discussion at
> all?", obviously 'cause it's not clear at all and I understand that
> Marketing, Translating and Steering should decide about it and tell all
> translators. I think that's the wise thing to do.

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