Hi,
Arial just found and fixed bug 122518 [1] which is caused by values in
XCU configuration files that got translated. This would be good for
values displayed on the UI. However, in this case, the values where
boolean values that are only used internally. Their values should be
"true" or "false". Numerical values 0 and 1 might also be OK. The
Spanish word for "true", "verdadero" is not one of the recognized values
and its use in the XCU file causes an error that prevents OpenOffice
from starting. A variant of this bug causes a build breaker when
building localized installation sets.
This change, replacing "true" by localized values (not restricted to
Spanish), was caused by revision 1465678 [2] (no issue id was given in
the log message). This revision has changes in 115 files. Commit
message was:
removed all non en-US messages incl. x-comment, to enable correct
translation.
corrected a few problems where en-US was dublicated.
NO code/makefile changes
Not only x-comment but also x-no-translate flags where removed. This
flag tells translators not to translate a string. Removing it, as the
commit message explains, enables [correct] translations. And it caused
"true" to be translated into Spanish, and maybe to other languages as
well. Ariel and Hanya have found this one bug but with 115 files
changed, more and subtler (ie harder to find) bugs may still exist.
Therefore I would like to propose to revert revision 1465678 and
re-apply it after careful review. I don't want to blame the author of
this change. Things like this can happen to everybody. I just want to
be on the save side and prevent bugs that might escape our QA and make
it into the release.
Best regards,
Andre
[1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122518
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1465678
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