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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 19/04/2015 15:23, Marco Ciampa a écrit :
> There is a little problem arising in the way KiCad handles hotkeys and
> translations.
> 
> All occurences of menu strings are all merged togegher in all KiCad
> programs of the suite.
> 
> The more KiCad grows the more is probably is that hotkeys that are
> perfectly valid in one menu will be clashing with another in another
> menu of another program.
> 
> See for example the double 'p' hotkey in the Pl_Editor file menu (press
> the "Alt" key in Ubuntu for seeing the hotkeys underlined).
> 
> Another problem arises from the fact that is not always possible to
> translate different strings in different context that are rendered in
> English with the same word.
> 
> As an example in English "none" is translated to "nessuno" or "nessuna"
> in Italian depending respectively from the context "male" or "female"
> object which they are referring to and I imagine that in other languages
> there are similar problems.
> 
> Gettext has a way to handle it using the "context":
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contexts.html
> 
> Will you consider to adopt such a expedient to solve this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Marco Ciampa

I don't know if wxWidgets support this kind of context, but to tell the
True, from my point of view (I mean, the point of view of the French
translator), when this issue arises, it is mainly due the fact the label
menu is too short (therefore ambiguous), or the sentence is not
correctly built in Kicad (for instance not using a "Printf" syntax, but
using a code like message << "x" << "y" << "x" which is never
translatable ).

Therefore, in all cases, it is due to an incorrect code.

I always prefer fix an issue than find a workaround.

So, at least for a first approach, send us where these issues are found.
I am pretty sure they can be fixed correctly.

(By the way, I do not understand the issue about clashing hotkeys:
The double 'p' "hotkey" (p is not a "hotkey" in this case) in the
Pl_Editor file menu does not create any issue because these shortcuts
are not in the same menu list )

Thanks.

-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS