BASIC vs. basic

l10n
#1

Hello all,

In LibreOffice, the programming language BASIC is mostly written as "Basic". This is a source of some confusion for translators (and I imagine many English-speaking users, too) as it's not always clear whether "Basic" should be interpreted as "basic" (a normal English word) or "BASIC" (the programming language).

Is there any particular reason for the current convention? Microsoft seems to be doing the same, but I don't know if that's a good enough reason for perpetuating the confusion.

Cheers,
Tuomas

#2

I totally agree. The programming language is an acronym, BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), so it should be all upper case. In LO sometimes it is not obvious whether 'Basic' refers to 'basic or BASIC.

Thanks, Tuomas.

Donald

#3

In any event the platform itself can be set up to avoid erroneous
translations of proper nouns, etc.
https://docs.weblate.org/no/latest/user/glossary.html?highlight=terminology#terminology

I am not an admin for it, and
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/ is on 4.4.2 when doing it
inside strings got introduced in version 4.5

- kingu