Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Martin Srebotnjak
Hi Donald et. al., 2011/12/29 Donald Rogers donr2...@clear.net.nz On the other hand, is this a mechanism for developers to save us lots of work, retranslating the same strings over and over, e.g. OK, Cancel? this is not a proper reason to compound strings this way. There are tons of Cancels

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Bauer
Quite. Even the little compounding we have leads to problems in highly inflected languages. Yes/No is another of those, which is unfortunately one that the OO team forgot, because a great many languages don't have a single word for yes and no and rely on the repetition of the verb. The only

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] compound strings

2011-12-31 Thread Andras Timar
2011/12/31 Martin Srebotnjak mi...@filmsi.net: I guess the conservatism of OOo team when designing UI with those UI spec documents was a good thing and this should be in a way incorporated in the LO development process, even if with a lower administration impact on developers - but there

[libreoffice-l10n] Strings still in English

2011-12-31 Thread Donald Rogers
Hi I am testing in LO beta2 on Mac, using the Esperanto modules. When I choose the (Equivalent of) the File menu, then Save as... I get the dialog box Save title untranslated with the field labels Save as and Where untranslated. Is this a known bug? The other strings, the ones in the inner box,