Localizing a macro or script

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Description

In LibreOffice most of the interactions with the user are handled by the Dialog Editor or inside extensions. However, some situations exhibit extra translations needs detailed in this page. Along with different perspectives, different solutions are applicable. Decorrelating macro/script code from translated content is the focus of this page.

Motivations

These conditions are categorised according to user stories, scripting languages, macros storage location.

Use Cases	x-Language Support	Location agnosticism
MsgBox, InputBox, Print (File/Folder)Picker StatusIndicator, InfoBar Password input Building dialogs with macros Runtime errors	Basic Python JavaScript etc …	Personal (Shared) Embedded in document Extensions

Extensions

Approaches

• Weblate
• Resource Resolver
• RDF