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

2015-01-21 Thread Stanislav Horáček
Thanks a lot! I've submitted the suggestions to Gerrit, where anyone is welcome to comment them: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/14092/ Stanislav Dne 20.1.2015 v 02:25 Jesper Hertel napsal(a): Here are my suggestions for examples for MIDB, LEFTB, RIGHTB and LENB. I actually made a

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

2015-01-20 Thread Kevin Suo
在2015年01月20 09时25分, Jesper Herteljesper.her...@gmail.com写道: Here are my suggestions for examples for MIDB, LEFTB, RIGHTB and LENB. Good job! If anyone else is curious, 中国 means China in Chinese – according to Google Translate :-). Google Translate is 100% right. Kevin Suo -- To

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

2015-01-20 Thread Yury Tarasievich
I won't pretend I understood the Chinese and Japanese cases, however, seems to me ALL this, or at least the most representative parts, should go into help, all languages, possibly not into the specific Basic function but into some separate subclause (handling the multi-byte codings?). This

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

2015-01-20 Thread Naruhiko Ogasawara
Hi, Kevin, Jesper, * Sorry, I couldn't catch this discussion, just short comment. Basically Japanese characters can be expressed double-byte as Chinese, and some of Japanese characters use 4 bytes (called Surrogate Pair), not a two byte, such as (U+2000B). I know it's trivial example: A1 =

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

2015-01-20 Thread Jesper Hertel
2015-01-20 13:18 GMT+01:00 Kevin Suo suokunl...@126.com: 在2015年01月20 09时25分, Jesper Herteljesper.her...@gmail.com写道: Here are my suggestions for examples for MIDB, LEFTB, RIGHTB and LENB. Good job! Thanks! If anyone else is curious, 中国 means China in Chinese – according to Google

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

2015-01-19 Thread Jesper Hertel
2015-01-19 21:30 GMT+01:00 Stanislav Horáček stanislav.hora...@gmail.com: 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. Hi Stanislav and

[libreoffice-l10n] Help text for MIDB

2015-01-19 Thread Jesper Hertel
The help text for MIDB ( https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Text_Functions#MIDB) says this: MIDB Returns a text string of a DBCS text. The parameters specify the starting position and the number of characters. Syntax MIDB(Text; Start; Number_bytes) Text is the text containing the characters

Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Help text for MIDB

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin Suo
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 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. Kevin

Fwd: [libreoffice-l10n] Help text for MIDB

2015-01-19 Thread Jesper Hertel
2015-01-19 15:32 GMT+01:00 Kevin Suo suokunl...@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

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

2015-01-19 Thread Stanislav Horáček
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