On 22/06/2006, at 8:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> now that the keyboard shortcuts are customizable (see
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ 
> Release_Notes#Configurable_keyboard ),
> I was wondering if some of you had already began generating some  
> localized
> version of the keyboard shortcuts adapted to their local keyboard  
> layout ?

When translating, we try to position keyboard accelerators to match  
the original, e.g.

msgid "S_hift"
msgstr "Dịc_h"

or as appropriately as possible:

msgid "_Edit"
msgstr "_Sửa"

Can these choices be overwritten by a custom keybindings file?

If so, it's an intriguing opportunity, because for my language, at  
least, positioning keyboard accelerators becomes extremely difficult,  
since most of the language is accented vowels, often with combined  
diacritics, and according to

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104112

gtk can't handle any non-ASCII keyboard shortcuts. I don't know if  
any other toolset handles them better.

For example:

msgid "_Edit session"
msgstr "Sửa phi_ên chạy"

The e-circumflex can't be used, since it requires two keystrokes (one  
being a dead key). We can't use the normal "e", leaving the user to  
assume the normal e from the string, because gtk can't associate  
those two characters.

Our problem becomes acute with long menus, or very short translations  
like:

msgid "Hide"
msgstr "Ẩn"

The only currently possible choice for a keyboard accelerator in the  
above string is "n", which is often already assigned in a menu.

So any extra opportunities for assigning keyboard shortcuts would be  
very welcome to our users. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN



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