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Re: Translating menus

Walid,

Good catch. This has been discussed a few times here, however, I think
we still need to form a consensus, debate the issue and document it in
the wiki. Thanks for raising the issue.

Yes, the underscores are for keyboard shortcuts. One thing I would
like to add to what you said is they need to be unified across all
applications to unify shortcut behaviours. Ctrl-ف  need to always
bring up the file menu in any application.

The technical dictionary can help with this.

Walid, BTW, I have created a wiki account for you. YGM[1] about it.

Djihed

[1]You got mail

On 26/10/06, Walid M. Bakkar <w dot bakkar at gawab dot com> wrote: 
Greetings,
When I looked over few translations I have noticed that some words -
more often menu items- have (_ underscore) before some letters like:
_File _Help and they get translated into _ملف or _مساعدة.

When I looked at it more closer I think those - the underscores- are to
mark the letters which will be used for the menus' keyboard-shortcut.
I,e for the File menu (Alt+F) for the Help menu (Alt+H).
Thus when translating the menu items we shouldn't use more than one
single character underscored, also if this is true I would suggest not
to underscore the Alif Lam chars and put the underscore after them in
the beginning of words like
_العمليات better would be ال_عمليات.

If this is an old info please someone confirm it for me if new please
check more and tell me what do you think?

Thanks.

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