Issue 58584

Summary:	Bad variable naming %O (oh) vs %0 (zero) in sch/source/ui/app/strings.src
Product:	General	Reporter:	Dwayne Bailey <dwayne>
Component:	chart	Assignee:	bjoern.milcke
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	issues@graphics <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, tony.galmiche.ooo
Version:	3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Dwayne Bailey 2005-11-28 17:44:52 UTC

In the file:
sch/source/ui/app/strings.src

There are translatable strings that use a variable %O (oh).  This is confusing
to translators as it is too easily confused with %0 (zero) if you are using a
font that does not make a clear distinction betweem zero and Oh.  It also does
not follow a translators expectation of seeing a number or small letter after a
% variables eg. %1, %2, %s, %d.

This has had to be corrected in every single South African translation and I
think we could save a lot of translators time and potential bugs if we fix this
to make it clearer.

I suggest using %1 which is what a translator would expect or %s.  Or if needed
a full variable eg %OBJECT

Comment 1 kla 2005-11-30 09:16:05 UTC

Seems to be yours.

Comment 2 Uwe Fischer 2005-11-30 09:26:08 UTC

a translation methods enhancement issue, please forward as appropriate

Comment 3 petr.dudacek 2006-01-30 14:53:42 UTC

Hi Uwe,
I think this issue is referring to changing the EN source text to use a
different character to "O" (oh) eg. %1, %2, %s, %d etc so as not to confuse the
translators & possibly cause errors.
Thanks,
Ian

Comment 4 Uwe Fischer 2006-01-31 08:19:41 UTC

It's an enhancement request to the Chart source code

Comment 5 bjoern.milcke 2006-02-08 14:52:35 UTC

We will avoid this placeholder in the new chart implementation

Comment 6 bjoern.milcke 2006-06-23 14:04:53 UTC

Changed Target to 2.x

Comment 7 IngridvdM 2006-11-16 21:34:31 UTC

This will be fixed within CWS chart2mst3 as the new chart does not have those
strings anymore and the code from module sch will be removed.

Comment 8 bjoern.milcke 2007-08-01 15:48:53 UTC

Verified in master SRC680.m223.

The string "%O" only appears in old translations, the English strings that serve
as basis for the translation now have more speaking names like %OBJECTNAME.

Comment 9 bjoern.milcke 2007-08-01 15:49:22 UTC

closing