[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 150693] Confusing language in Similarity Search

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150693

--- Comment #3 from Tuomas Hietala <tuomas.hietala at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #2)
> Here the use of tooltips is very helpful. But I would change the first one
> (as well as the description in the help page)
> 
> For "Exchange characters" the tooltip is "Enter the number of characters in
> the search term that can be exchanged". Maybe a better tooltip would be
> "Enter the number of characters that can differ from the search term"
> 
> Here are some suggestions for the labels:
> "Number of different characters"
> "Number of additional characters"
> "Number of missing characters"

I agree that "different" is a better word here.

> Or maybe a reduced version
> 
> "Different by [ ] characters"
> "   Larger by [ ] characters"
> "  Shorter by [ ] characters"
> 
> Where [ ] is where the entry box is positioned.

This would work well for English (and many other languages), but not
necessarily for all languages. I think hardcoding a particular sentence
structure in the UI should be avoided.

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