What are these strings for?

Jellby · 05-21-2011, 06:45 AM

When translating the strings in calibre, I've found several that make no sense to me. They are apparently titles, subtitles or slogans of ebook shops or sites:

"Free Books : Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive : Internet Archive." (from http://www.archive.org/details/texts ?)
"Der eBook Shop." (from http://www.beam-ebooks.de/ ?)
"EPUBReaders eBook Shop." (from http://www.epubbuy.com/ ?)
"Entertain, enrich, inspire." (from http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html ?)

There are even some strings that are definitely not English ("Zaczarowany świat książek").

What's the purpose of these? What are they used for? Should they be translated?

user_none · 05-21-2011, 09:14 AM

As of right now ignore them. These are from the store plugins. Currently the description is set to the store's tag line / slogan. This will be changing to an actual real description in the nearish future. They're basically there as place holders and I felt the store's tag line was a nicer looking place holder than every store saying something like "I'm the store's description."

Jellby · 05-22-2011, 01:08 PM

Thanks, I've used the same strings as translations, waiting for something better to appear

05-21-2011, 06:45 AM	#1
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	What are these strings for? When translating the strings in calibre, I've found several that make no sense to me. They are apparently titles, subtitles or slogans of ebook shops or sites: "Free Books : Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive : Internet Archive." (from http://www.archive.org/details/texts ?) "Der eBook Shop." (from http://www.beam-ebooks.de/ ?) "EPUBReaders eBook Shop." (from http://www.epubbuy.com/ ?) "Entertain, enrich, inspire." (from http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html ?) There are even some strings that are definitely not English ("Zaczarowany świat książek"). What's the purpose of these? What are they used for? Should they be translated?

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05-21-2011, 09:14 AM	#2
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,488 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	As of right now ignore them. These are from the store plugins. Currently the description is set to the store's tag line / slogan. This will be changing to an actual real description in the nearish future. They're basically there as place holders and I felt the store's tag line was a nicer looking place holder than every store saying something like "I'm the store's description."

05-22-2011, 01:08 PM	#3
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Thanks, I've used the same strings as translations, waiting for something better to appear

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