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Re: Starting with Spanish GUI translation

 

Hello.


I'm sorry, I was busy and had hardware problems.

Can be coordinate over transifex, please?


Kind regards.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:33 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 22/10/2015 10:50, Marco Ciampa a écrit :
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:02:08AM +0200, ifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I have just started translating KiCad GUI to Spanish. The existing
> >> translation is very old an only about 1% of the translation is done.
> >>
> >> I'm about the 15% now, but I have a couple of questions and I hope
> >> this is the place to be answered.
> >>
> >> When translating menu entries with hotkeys, sometimes the English
> >> hotkey letter isn't available in the Spanish translation, so, what
> >> is the better solution to solve this?
> >>
> >> Example and options:
> >>
> >> Original text:
> >>
> >> Show &Layers
> >>
> >>
> >> Spanish translation options:
> >>
> >> 1- Mostrar &capas
> >> 2- Mostrar capas &L
> >>
> >>
> >> 1 This option messes up the hotkey list between Languages
> >> 2 This works and shows the hotkey (Shouldn't hotkeys always be
> >> visible? Only a bunch of them are show in KiCad.
> >>
> >> Do you have a better option?
> >>
> >> A last question. When the translation be done, is it OK to post it
> >> here as an attachment?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Iñigo Figuero.
> >>
> >
> > Very good question(s) and IMHO a good solution idea too...
> > I am eager to see the others opinion...
> >
>
> Do not be confused by hotkeys and accelerator keys.
>
> In this case, this is not a hotkey, but an accelerator key for the
> current menu item.
>
> When exist, hotkeys do not appear in menu strings in sources.
> They are dynamically added to these strings at run time, because they
> are editable by users.
>
>
> I am using the option 1 in French translations.
>
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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