Re: gEDA-user: gschem's new pretty menus

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:56 -0600, John Doty wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:48 PM, John Doty wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>> at fits. It's the ones with underscores that are broken.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how you'd define an equivalent accelerator in Japanese
>>>> though.
>>>
>>> Japanese use Roman letters for acronyms, often from English
>>> translation, which seem related to accelerators. Nippon Denki Kaisha
>>> becomes NEC, Nippon Electric Company. Japanese keyboards are set up
>>> to type Roman letters as needed. So maybe no change is needed.
>>>
>>> But you really need to ask some 日本人, I'm just faking it.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I see you mean the Fn-key accelerators. I don't know. Never mind
>> the difficulties of Japanese, how does one internationalize those at
>> all?
>
> The keybinding is extracted from the string, so if some translator,  
> e.g.
> Danish; changes "_Open" to "å_ben", then the new accelerator key  
> will be
> "b". I just don't know it if could be "_åben", or "_打开"

In Japanese, it's 開く, but you'd actually type 開 as ひら, so  
it's not just one keystroke. く is a single keystroke, but it's too  
common an ending to use for an accelerator. I guess the translators  
will need to figure this out.

>
> (PS. I don't speak Danish, or simplified Chinese.. but Google's
> translator does).
>
> -- 
> Peter Clifton
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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