Hi, Thomas,
On 7/9/2010 09:31, Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hello again,
One possible problem: does %My work, or only %MY ("Y" upper-case), and
similarly for nu.
Since neither of us has a working German version, maybe Sigrid will be
kind enough to tell us.
The exact case as in symbol.src in RID_UI_SYMBOL_NAMES is required.
Also translation of those symbol names must follow a specific syntax
otherwise the result in the formula editor may not work.
The required naming scheme for those symbols is:
1) They must start with an alphabetic character
2) The following characters may be alphanumeric or a '.' (ASCII period)
This especially allows for
- Alpha2
- alpha.small, alpha.large, less.equal
- use of non-western characters like Russioan, Greek, Japanese, ...
and it implicitly disallows
- names containing white spaces
- more than one word (those should be written as e.g.
AbcDefg or abc.defg, ...)
- the use of the _ character
(that one is used as subscript symbol after all)
Minor correction about the English names used in the ODF file format:
The names used there (which a normal user will never see) are those
defined in RID_EXPORT_SYMBOL_NAMES in symbol.src (which just happen to
be the same as the en-US UI names listed in RID_UI_SYMBOL_NAMES).
Regards,
Thomas
Thank you very much for your invaluable insights into the world of
localization. I found enough information to fix the German documentation
on the wiki (although "symbol.src" does not list German as a language;
French, Swedish, Italian...).
Other names are localized as well, notably "jota/JOTA". It will take me
a while to compose a note for the English version of the Math Guide /
Writer Guide (unless someone beats me to it) to the effect that these
symbols (Greek and Special) may be localized, but the file itself will
be coded in a universal format.
--
With much gratitude,
/tj/
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