Re: About & simbols

Andrea Celli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2010/1/7 Leandro Regueiro <[email protected]>:
>> We are starting to work on the Spanish translations and we have found some
>> texts preceded by a "&" symbol in some .po files. It seems to make reference
>> to system common strings or something like that, like "open", or "tools".
>>
>> Should we translate them, keep or remove the "&", do nothing about it?
>
> The & marks the key that has to be pressed along the Alt key in order
> to select that item. For example, if you have "&File" as translation
> for the File menu, when you press Alt + F the File menu pops up.
>
> You should adapt it to you language when you translate, for example "&Archivo".
>
> Bye
>

Pay just attention to have not two or more &Axxxx in the same menu ;-)
You are not forced to use the first letter, you can also translate as Ar&chivo.

Andrea
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