Bug 135233 - Useless looking translatable string: "error text goes here"
Summary: Useless looking translatable string: "error text goes here"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Julien Nabet
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.4.0
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Reported: 2020-07-28 13:49 UTC by NISZ LibreOffice Team
Modified: 2022-02-28 06:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-07-28 13:49:11 UTC
In instsetoo_native/inc_openoffice/windows/msi_languages we have this translatable string:

https://weblate.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/instsetoo_nativeinc_openofficewindowsmsi_languages/hu/?checksum=ed174ca94f9ba32c

Context: Control.ulf OOO_CONTROL_206 LngText.text
Comment: rvG8Q
Text: "error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here  error text goes here"

As noticed in Weblate by translators, this looks useless to translate.
Is this really necessary to be 
1, present in the installer code
2, in case it's necessary, does it make sense to have it as translatable string?
Comment 1 Andras Timar 2020-07-28 14:08:45 UTC
Clearly it's a placeholder. It is used in the installer code. Maybe if you replace OOO_CONTROL_206 to the actual text in .idt files, it will work, and you make it untranslatable.
Comment 2 Julien Nabet 2022-02-27 19:13:58 UTC
I submitted a patch here:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/130657

I must recognize I don't know why there was several times "error text goes here" so I just put it once in each file.
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2022-02-27 22:03:14 UTC
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/aafd4c8431aa511511375ff39f87a7f8bde726e0

tdf#135233: Useless looking translatable string: "error text goes here"

It will be available in 7.4.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Mike Kaganski 2022-02-28 06:41:57 UTC
FTR: The text is what will be shown e.g. when you test the dialog in MSI-authoring tools like MS orca or InstEd. Using a long enough text, you get the reasonable display on the preview dialog, and will get an idea how the resulting, possibly long, text will look like, and wrap, when it will be shown for real.