Hi Rafaella,

Rafaella Braconi wrote:
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.

For information, the translation used for the FR version in the wiki is wrong and doesn't reflect the current menus like they are in 2.0.3. For example:
 239604          ********** ~View        ********** ~Afficher
should be:
 239604          ********** ~View        ********** ~Affichage

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

+1

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)

Can I make the changes directly in the wiki to correct it and reflect the correction that has been added in 2.0.3 FR ?

The FR main menus mnemonics have been decided in coordination with several other projects like Gnome, Mozilla, PoEdit, etc. to get the same mnemonics throughout our products. I think that Brigitte Le Grand will add them to the next Guide.

3. Agree that the reviewed and amended documents are the valid reference documents.

+1

4. Reassign mnemonics in the main menus ad indicated in the reference documents (ideally, Globalization will carry out the changes directly in Web-LingTool)

What is 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.

Thanks to all of them for their work
Kind regards
Sophie

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