Hi Yury, all Le 14/12/2014 07:41, Yury Tarasievich a écrit : > On 12/14/2014 09:19 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > ... >> But that was not my point, I was complaining about people who think that >> consistency, following linguistic rules and proper typography are usless >> cosmetics. Regardless of how localisation will be done or what >> language is > ... > > Then you completely misunderstood the point of localisers, and defeated > a strawman. > > It's commendable to strive for proper typography in the source etc. > > But the translation may have had the proper typography (for its language > context) first time, couldn't it? > > However, localisers (why did you quote the term, anyway?) have to redo > the work already (properly) done, repeatedly. Reviewing and approving 1k > of strings isn't peanuts, whatever one may think. > > To put it into context assuredly familiar to you - how would you like to > have to redo from scratch one specific curve in the font, verbatim, > several times? Would it strike you as a not quite an optimal way to > spend the time you dedicate to open projects? > > And I have yet to see those technical marvels we've been promised will > compensate for this problem (promised with lot of eff-ing at silly > localisers, by the way).
Hey, those scripts are done by people to help us, so don't shout on them. We will discuss these heavy changes after the code/string freeze with developers and designers. We have to find a way that allow to maintain the sources without impacting the targets when it's not needed, let's try to find a solution and keep working in a good mood. Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier [email protected] Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
