On 22 February 2013 09:30, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22.02.2013 08:29, janI wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> the .src sources relatively often contain a text line: >> >> text [x-comment] = "..." >> >> most times the ... is empty, but it also contains english text, and in one >> case a multibyte charecter text. >> > > Hi Jan, > > I do not know the answer but would like to make a guess: > the x-comment "language" is used to annotate the actual string with a > message from developer to translator. > > My guess is based on some very hazy memory and by looking at files like > officecfg/registry/data/org/**openoffice/Office/Embedding.**xcu > > Lines 27 to 31 for example look like this: > > <node oor:*name=*"Verbs"> > <node oor:*name=*"PRIMARY" oor:*op=*"replace"> > <prop oor:*name=*"VerbUIName"> > <value>Primary</value> > <value xml:*lang=*"x-comment">Is not shown in UI. No translation > is required.</value> > </prop> > > > If I am right then today you would write this like this: > > <node oor:*name=*"Verbs"> > <node oor:*name=*"PRIMARY" oor:*op=*"replace"> > <prop oor:*name=*"VerbUIName" oor:localized="false"> > <value>Primary</value> > </prop> > > Note the additional > oor:localized="false" > in the <prop> tag. > the trigger today is the missing "xml:*lang=" only tags with that are extracted.
the x-comment are not extracted to the sdf files, so the translators never gets the information. > But again, this is only a guess, not a fact. > Thx for your guess, it works well with my guess (meaning I could remove x-comment). I hope someone has some cool facts. rgds Jan I. > > -Andre > > > >> We have no language "x-comment", and it is currently not extracted, >> however >> there are a couple of places in the code noting it is automatically >> loaded. >> >> So my questions are: >> 1) Is this leftovers from and older version, and no longer used ? >> 2) if not, how is it used ? >> 3) if not, should it be translated (if it can appear in the ui it should >> be >> translated) ? >> >> thanks in advance for your help >> Jan I. >> >> >
