Bug 160850 - Gender mismatch in Draw status bar
Summary: Gender mismatch in Draw status bar
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Localization (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsDevEval
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Blocks: Statusbar l10n-Optimization
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Reported: 2024-04-28 23:08 UTC by B. Antonio Fernández
Modified: 2024-05-14 14:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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image of status bar (12.40 KB, image/png)
2024-05-13 17:55 UTC, B. Antonio Fernández
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Description B. Antonio Fernández 2024-04-28 23:08:28 UTC
(object) Selected appears in the Draw status bar.

In English, objects do not have gender so the information is correct, but in other languages, such as Spanish, there are objects with a masculine gender and objects with a feminine gender,
so a very ugly gender mismatch is created for a language other than English.

Instead of indicating:
      (object) selected

would it be possible to indicate 
      selection of (object)?

This concerns to 24.2.2.2 and 7.6.6.3 releases
Comment 1 B. Antonio Fernández 2024-05-13 17:55:38 UTC
Created attachment 194106 [details]
image of status bar
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-14 14:21:35 UTC
That's a good point: the adaptive selection label will need a feminine or masculine variant in many languages, depending on the object selected.
Other example, in French:
- 2 objets sélectionnés
- 2 images sélectionnées

Currently, for French, this is worked around by using the string: "sélectionné(e)(s)", which is not the most elegant solution.

(In reply to B. Antonio Fernández from comment #0)
> would it be possible to indicate 
>       selection of (object)?
Alternatively:
        Selected: (number) (object)

Sophie, an opinion? I might be missing something.

Hossein, an easyHack?