Dear N-L Leads and Localizers,
to try to solve the problem of duplicate or unusual mnemonics in the
product, the StarOffice QA team has created a testtool script which is
able to detect changes in the mnemonics menu entries which may
erroneously occur during translation.
The menu items (first level) should have - as far as possible - the same
mnemonics for both consistency and usability reasons.
Automating the mnemonic testing it means that initially we would need to
invest some time in verifying and, if necessary fix, the mnemonics in
the main menus. Based on that information the script would be able to
tell us if and what has been changed from version to version.
We - Sun/Globalization - have set up a wiki page summarizing the
*mnemonics* issue at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mnemonics_Localisation
At the bottom of this page you can find links to mnemonics tables for 9
languages to use in order to review and to suggest changes in the
mnemonics as well as some instructions.
With this *Call for Action* we would like to invite you to help us
verifying if the mnemonics of the first menu level as they are in the
main menus are correct or if they need any changes and define new
mnemonics in the wiki of your language.
As reported on the wiki, what needs to be done in order to improve the
current situation is:
1. Agree that duplicate mnemonics in the main menus are not acceptable
2. Review the reference documents created based on build OOC680m0 from
the functionality and usability perspective (ideally, Community
engineers should confirm if the mnemonics as they are in the initial
mnemonics documents provided are correct and, if necessary indicate the
necessary changes)
3. Agree that the reviewed and amended documents are the valid reference
documents.
4. Reassign mnemonics in the main menus ad indicated in the reference
documents (ideally, Globalization will carry out the changes directly in
Web-LingTool)
I really would like to thank Thorsten Ziehm for his great support in
this initiative, Thorsten Bosbach for writing the script and his
patience to provide mnemonics lists (more than once), Ian McDonnell for
setting up the wiki page and contributing with the content and last but
not least Petr Dudacek for creating the mnemonics list wikis to help the
Community and Sun to better provide and then easier fix the needed changes.
Feel free to ask in case of questions. Your feedback and help is greatly
appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Rafaella
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