Now I understand the problem. I did roughly 5% of the translation. Rest of
the translation have been done earlier.

 It is easy to follow the chinese method from developing / translating
viewpoint. But troublesome from user point of view. This is at the least
w.r.t AOO-TA. Assume the user is typing in Tamil by switching to Tamil
keyboard. (Generally they have an English OS, and switch the keyboard for
Tamil typing) To access the F key, he has to change to English keyboard
from Tamil Keyboard and type alt F, then go back to Tamil keyboard and
continue typing. I think this will defeat the purpose of "Hot Key"

I was advised to remove the ~ sign while translation. Just have a look the
link http://3frames.in/AOO/Bug004.html .Look closer to the encircle areas.
There are some problem. This may be due to ~


With Warm Regards

V.Kadal Amutham
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On 2 July 2013 04:07, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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