https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173043
Bug ID: 173043
Summary: “outline” is difficult to translate
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Localization
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In LibreOffice, “outline” can sometimes mean:
1. an overview of something
or
2. the outer lines of a shape.
It looks like a lot of the translations get this wrong, which is quite
understandable because it’s really hard to figure out the context when
presented with a string in Weblate.
For example, if you select a chart and then do “Insert->Data table”, there is
an option in the dialog called “Show outline” (KAzDB). This string is sometimes
translated as what looks like meaning 1:
French: Afficher le plan
Basque: Erakutsi eskema
and others like meaning 2:
Esperanto: Vidigi konturon
Catalan: Mostra el contorn
Or another example is the menu item for the outline mode in Impress (coDkB):
meaning 1:
French: Plan
Aragonais: Esquema
meaning 2:
Danish: Kontur
Luxembourgish: Konturen
I think it would be really helpful to add translator comments to all of these
strings to explain which meaning is intended.
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