Bug 570726 - French: "Basculer le retour à la ligne" ("Toggle Word Wrap")
Summary: French: "Basculer le retour à la ligne" ("Toggle Word Wrap")
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 4.18   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 trivial (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2021-01-28 12:37 EST by Nobody - feel free to take it CLA
Modified: 2021-01-28 12:37 EST (History)
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Description Nobody - feel free to take it CLA 2021-01-28 12:37:32 EST 
The Windows menu contains a "Toggle Word Wrap" action, as can be seen in the following screenshot:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1932211/28625339-3360b738-721c-11e7-8210-a1b22c6d3c74.png

In French, that menu item's label is translated to "Basculer le retour à la ligne" (which would be "Toggle the return to line" in English). This is quite unclear, and puzzling since there is no tooltip available.

French has no specific translations for "line wrap" and "word wrap". "renvoi à la ligne automatique" or "retour à la ligne automatique" are both valid translations. Microsoft uses the former: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/office/renvoyer-du-texte-%C3%A0-la-ligne-dans-une-cellule-2a18cff5-ccc1-4bce-95e4-f0d4f3ff4e84

I do not speak English natively, but I recommend reconsidering the situation in English. I am pretty sure a large portion of users couldn't define "Word Wrap". If the label is kept intact, adding a tooltip would surely clarify.