if I had to take a guess, I'd say that this code is a relic of the old Star Office days. Remember: Open Office has its root in Star Office which was bought out

if I had to take a guess, I'd say that this code is a relic of the old Star Office days. Remember: Open Office has its root in Star Office which was bought out by Sun back in the days. Star Office was a product by a german company. While it's really bad style to write non-english code, it's understandable that it might happen in debug code like this and if that assertion is never hit, nobody ever sees it to correct it. "Tab zu gross" is German for "tab too big"