Hi,

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Martin Srebotnjak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adding "_" as an accelerator should have made programmers think about it:
> changing same strings with accelerators from tilde to underscore made a lot
> of manual work for translators of more than 100 languages - one changed UI
> string in this manner meant more than 100 people had to manually change that
> string ... And there were hundred(s) of such strings, more to come.

I created a compendium from old translations. Then I replaced all ~ to
_ and merged the two compendiums. With this merged compendium most of
the old translations were re-used. When not, they often come as
suggestion from amaGama server (in Pootle). So I tried to mitigate the
collateral damage. I do hope, however, that large scale code
reorganization will come to an end some day.

> Since underscore is more likely to appear in "normal" strings than tilde (or
> at least I would suppose so) - why not make it the other way than what
> Andras suggests - so that with a script in all specially marked po files
> tildes would be changed to underscore? Or introduce some kind of
> meta-accelerator (%ACC)?

Unfortunately _ comes from GTK+/Glade. We edit dialogs in Glade now.

Best regards,
Andras

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