Bug 154460 - Unclear sentence: "Change typewriter apostrophe, single quotation marks and correct double primes."
Summary: Unclear sentence: "Change typewriter apostrophe, single quotation marks and c...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Options-Dialog-Language
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Reported: 2023-03-29 21:19 UTC by Tuomas Hietala
Modified: 2023-04-13 08:10 UTC (History)
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Description Tuomas Hietala 2023-03-29 21:19:58 UTC
Description:
The string "Change typewriter apostrophe, single quotation marks and correct double primes." occurs two times in LO. It's not correct English and the meaning is somewhat unclear.

"Change typewriter apostrophe" - change into what? I assume typographically correct apostrophe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Typographic_form

"single quotation marks" - what are these being changed into?

"correct double primes"- I assume this means changing ASCII double quotation marks into double prime Unicode characters (U+2033).


Steps to Reproduce:
1. See https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/dictionariesendialog/en/?checksum=b58b6639d4a0d406
and
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/dictionariespt_brdialog/en/?checksum=be0cc6427d743477


Actual Results:
The sentence is unclear.

Expected Results:
The sentence is correct English and explains better what the option actually does.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
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Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-13 08:10:57 UTC
Code pointer: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/dictionaries/en/dialog/en_en_US.properties?r=ff606081

This is the tooltip when hovering over Tools > Options > Language settings > English Sentence Checking > Apostrophe.

I agree the wording is unclear, but can't really suggest a correction here as I'm having a hard time testing it: having it off or on does not seem to change the behaviour.

László, what do you think? Sentence hasn't been touched since your 2011 commit: 95445a70a29c6a1166a19f483566f2c9cfc7563b