Re: Hotkeys in po (fwd)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky nenya ms mff cuni cz>]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Christian Rose wrote:

> On 8 May 2002, Sven Neumann wrote:
> > > Is there a tool for checking duplicated mnemonics in the user interface? I
> > > think someone mentioned that gettext had this functionality now, but I'm
> > > unable to find any references to it right now.
> > > Any pointers?
> >
> > how would such a tool work? I can imagine that looking at the po file
> > would be sufficient for apps that only have a single dialog but I
> > don't see how it is supposed to work for complex apps that may very
> > well use the same mnemonic in different dialogs.
>
> I have not the slightest idea.
> Similar to you, I have always assumed that such a tool would have to be
> fairly complex to get all cases straight when checking for duplicate
> mnemonics. But Gudmund told me KBabel has something like this, and if I
> remember correctly, someone (Karl Eichwalder?) said GNU gettext now has
> something similar. So appearantly there are some tools who do this. But I
> would also appreciate more details about it (and experiences on how well
> the checking works).

What does "mnemonics" mean?

Stanislav
KBabel maintainer