Re: [libreoffice-website] Can’t translate module names on the website

On 4/19/26 11:19, Neil Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that when the name of a module such as “Writer” appears as a
> string on its own on the new Hugo website it’s not possible to translate
> it. For example, on the main page the little boxes explaining what each
> module does have the titles hardcoded as “Writer”, “Calc” etc in the
> HTML layout. Also for example the string “LibreOffice Impress Remote” is
> marked as read-only. Is this deliberate? Is it something to do with
> trying to preserve the trademarks?
>
> The Esperanto translation of the software has been systematically
> renaming all the modules to Esperanto words. For example Writer is
> “Verkilo” and Calc is “Tabelilo”. I can’t continue this tradition on the
> website for the places where the name appears on its own. This is a bit
> confusing for example in the part explaining the Impress Remote because
> the header has the name in English and the paragraph beneath has the
> esperantoised name. See:
>
> https://newdesign2.libreoffice.org/refs/heads/master/eo/download-other.html
>
> Are there any other translations that do this? Would it be possible to
> change the website code to allow these translatations? Or should the
> Esperanto translation stop trying to change the product names? I am new
> to the Esperanto translation project so I don’t know the reasons for
> translating the names. I imagine it would be quite annoying to have to
> change them all. It wouldn’t be a simple matter of search-and-replace
> because when the name is an esperanto word it is easy to put in the
> accusative case for example, but if it’s kept as an English word you
> have to think of different workarounds on a case by case basis (I’m sure
> other languages have this problem too).

Hi,

wherever I mark stuff for translation, such as in the wiki and now in 
the website, I always skip freestanding application and product names to 
save time from translators. I am aware that some translators have 
translated the app names. I don't understand why they should be 
translated, though. I think it's localisation taken too far. It's easy 
to change the convention, if there is general agreement this should be done.

Ilmari

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