On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:58:33PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kadal Amutham wrote: > >I am not in a position to understand this problem. Can you rephrase the > >problem statement? > > In English, mnemonics in the form "~File" means: press ALT+F to open > the "File" menu. > > Chinese decided
In this case, this isn't something to be decided, the VCL algorithm that assigns automatic mnemonics uses the form (~A-Z) for CJK. > to translate it as "文件(~F)" so: the text is in > Chinese, but the shortcut remains ALT+F. This displays an underlined > F. This is probably easier if you use an English keyboard. > > Tamil has a mixed approach, probably not due to you but to the > existing translation: some strings use mnemonics like > ~கண்டுபிடிக்க > while some use > எழுத்துருக்கள் (~F) > which is similar to the Chinese approach. > > I don't know if this is just inconsistent or if it breaks the > OpenOffice mnemonics in Tamil. The question is if Tamil users can activate with the keyboard the mnemonic assigned to a Tamil character (with my es-LATAM keyboard I can't). > the best place to discuss this is > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122640 I opened a new bug: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122663 Hopefully the explanation there is clear. @Kadal: please take a look at the screeh shot attached to the bug. Note that this bug is not so important, compared to the general state of the Tamil UI translation (it has too many strings in English, in several prominent places). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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