[Libreoffice-qa] Writer: Use of different items for Formatting Marks

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Jochen,

Jochen schrieb:
> Hi *,
>
> in bugreport 45588 [1] is discussed following problem concerning writer:
> Use of different items for Formatting Marks (in German Localization).
>
> My proposal to solve the problem is
> 1) Clarify what are the correct terms in English
> 2) Clarify if terms are in english UI and help of LO entered correctly
> 3) Clarify what are the correct terms in German
> 4) Localisation in German
>
> I want to discuss the two first steps on this ML:
> 1) Clarify what are the correct terms in English
> 2) Clarify if terms are in english UI and help of LO entered correctly

I propose to use in English always the terms of the Unicode 
specification, see http://unicode.org/charts

>
> English Wikipedia: Non-breaking space
> Unicode: U+00A0
> In English also known as: No-break space, non-breakable space, NBSP, hard
> space, fixed space
> Terms used in English UI and LO Help: non-breaking space, protected space
> Proposal for LO, English: None-breaking space

NO-BREAK SPACE
or its common abbreviation NBSP

>
>
> English Wikipedia: Non-breaking hyphen
> Unicode: U+2011
> Terms used in Englich UI and LO Help: non-breaking hyphen, non-breaking
> dash, protected hyphen, non-breaking (protected) hyphen
> Proposal for LO, English: Non-breaking hyphen

NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

>
>
> English Wikipedia: Soft hyphen
> Unicode: U+00AD
> Terms used in English UI and Help: optional hyphen, custom hyphen,
> definite separator, conditional separator, user-defined delimiter
> Proposal for LO, English: Soft hyphen

SOFT HYPHEN
or its common abbreviation SHY

Translating to German is a different problem, because there exists no 
normative translation of the Unicode standard. The discussion is old, 
see https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=39762

Kind regards
Regina