Eike Rathke írta: > > Usually localizations choose to localize function names if a localized > Excel exists that uses localized function names, because that is what > people are used to. It is much easier for experienced users to > lookup/associate English function names for the localized names than for > not so experienced users that were used to work with Excel before. > Additionally, if people were taught a localized OOo using English > function names they will have difficulties >
It is true, but when we localised OOo in 2002 we did not think it over. Now we cannot translate the function names in OOo in order to get new users, because current users got used to English function names, documentation and books were written (even official docs for secondary school pupils) etc. > An easy workaround, provided the Hungarian version localized the names, > would be to install both, a Hungarian and an English language pack, so > people may switch back and forth between UI languages and identifiers as > they like. Or I can create hu2 language pack which is identical to the current one except that function names in the software and help are translated. I'll check this. I switching back and force did not require a restart of the application (including Quickstarter), then it would be a perfect workaround. > >> I am thinking about a feature that allows the following: >> 1. Users can enter functions both in their native language and in >> English - even mixed if they like. > > Would work only if you could guarantee that no duplicated names with > different functionality exist between the two languages. As such > a feature should be generally available for all localizations it would > be near to impossible to fulfill this constraint. > On the contrary the probability is very low that in some language FOO is translated as BAR and BAR is translated as FOO. Anyway, I don't think that mixed input is important. It is even easier to implement the feature, if mixed input is not possible. Thanks for your positive answer, Eike. I'll make my comments in Issue Tracker (38765), when I have something ready. Thanks, Andras --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
