So far very few. But they are easily spotted in the UI and look
unprofessional.
All in all, it is too early for me to generalize because I'm doing an
in-dept re-editing of the Lithuanian translation that I hope to carry on
beyond 4.0.1. So a more precise statistical answer would have to wait.
My initial idea was to get the LT translation to a point where it is no
longer perceived by the end user as a translation...
Aivaras
2013.09.03 23:36, Rob Weir rašė:
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Aivaras Stepukonis
<[email protected]> wrote:
It is quite disheartening to find out that some menu item titles/descriptors
are used in several locations as one and the same string assuming that the
linguistic expression in those locations can remain unchanged (constant).
Unfortunate, this is an English-centric assumption.
What has a constant linguistic form in English (thus allowing its repetition
across the UI without the need to adapt) may actually have a variable
linguistic form in another language (in my case, it's Lithuanian). Repeating
such strings in the UI puts a local translator in a very uncomfortable
position because what looks correct in one place may turn out to have an
incorrect grammatical form in another.
>From what you have seen so far, how big is the problem? Are you
seeing a handful of strings like this? 100? 1000? Although we
cannot restructure the strings in 4.0.1, we can look for ways to
improve in OpenOffice 4.1.
-Rob
I've given an example of this in an earlier e-mail.
Aivaras
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