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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/18/2017 11:00 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 18/07/2017 à 16:31, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> I'm fine with the icon improvements.  The rotate menu entry string
>> changes are technically incorrect.  The rotation angle is user
>> configurable and may not always be 90 degrees so "Rotate 90 deg CW" is
>> not always going to be correct.  That is why there is no rotation angle
>> in the current string.  I would rather the string be "Rotate Clockwise"
>> or create the appropriate string at run time using the current user
>> rotation setting to "Rotate 45.0 deg Clockwise".  Also, "CW" may not be
>> understood as clockwise or easily translatable in all languages.  I
>> guess we cannot use the degrees character '°' due to font issues.  It
>> would be nice to use the symbol rather than spell it out so the menu
>> string doesn't get too long.
> 
> I confirm:
> * CW and CCW and not really translatable. (the best way is to have 2 different icons)

What about "clockwise" and "counter clockwise", are they translatable?
I imagine they would be.  I prefer to avoid abbreviations except for
units whenever possible for this reason.

> * the degrees character '°' is not accepted in strings to translate by our translation tools.
> AFAIK, only ASCII7 chars are accepted.
> 
>>
>> On 7/4/2017 12:03 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> following up on the ongoing effort of reducing kicad icons and making
>>> kicad UI more usable I am sending this patch.
>>>
>>> Essentially this patch simplify several icons of the right click menu
>>> of both eeschema, pcbnew and lib component SW.
>>>
>>> Few minor icon look improvements  are also present.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Fabrizio
>>>
>>>
>>>
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