Hi,
the current format of the OOo resource files require English and German
language entries in order to assure a valid string. This historic
requirement does not make sense anymore as it hamper the development
process for non German developers, two possible different translation of
the same string cause confusion about the correctness and it complicates
fixing German l10n related issues. We are going to remove all German
strings soon from the source files and add them to the localize.sdf
files. Thus German is handled like all any other translation languages.
In the past we left the German translation in the resouces files to have
a simple and good German translation from the German developers here. To
reuse this "free" German translation or also for adding hints from other
languages we will now add "recommendation" files. These files are only
optional and are not required! They give you the chance to provide
recommendations how to translate the new/changed string to your language.
The workflow to generate these files will be:
- Generate with a new tool the file xyz.src.recommendation from file
xyz.src
- Edit that file or use a special tool for that
- Checkin || Commit that file
- a automated process will regulary fetch all recommendation files from
the modules, move them into our translation database and remove the
files from the source repository
Will be tracked in issue #i72301#
Cheers,
Ivo
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
