Re: About & simbols

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:17 AM, sherif hasan <sherifgh2001-/[email protected]>wrote:

> Dear Diego, Hi, I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean, I am a
> translator but I didn't send you any work for translation,
>
> Rgds
> Sherif
>
>
I'm just starting to understand some things about translating po files. The
works I'm talking about were taken by ourselves, the Spanish translation
team.

I just asked if I should check some other thing besides the .po file we are
translating, in relation to the "&" words of a menu.



>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Diego Bello <[email protected]>
> *To:* cooker-i18n-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]; Andrea Celli <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Leandro Regueiro <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Fri, 8 January, 2010 14:22:13
> *Subject:* Re: [i18n] About & simbols
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Andrea Celli <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Thanks andrea.
>
> I only see the & in the .po file and yes, we are careful with that. Is
> there any other file where I should look for & shortcuts?
>
> --
> Diego Bello Carreño
>
>


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Diego Bello Carreño