Re: Tools to help with mnemonic l10n?

[Byrial Jensen <byrial vip cybercity dk>]

Den 11-01-2012 14:23, Chris Leonard skrev:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Byrial Jensen<byrial vip cybercity dk>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I translate button labels and menu texts etc., it may be difficult to
> > select good (that is unique) key mnemonics (the letters with a prepended
> > underscore) as I often do not know which options will be grouped together in
> > the same menu or window.
> >
> > I wonder if there is any tools to help with that.
> >
> > When the UI is made with glade, maybe the program which extracts the
> > translatable strings from the glade XML file could analyze the file enough
> > to insert comments into the pot file about which strings with mnemonics are
> > in the same group. This could help the translator, and it would  be possible
> > for other tools such as for instance pofilter to check for possible mnemonic
> > conflicts in the translated po files. Do anything like this exist, or has
> > anyone plans to do like this?
> >
> > Best begards
> > - Byrial
>
>
> I don't know of any such tool, but I like your idea.  I particulalry
> like the notion of a pofilter check, but on what basis will the
> algorithm know that the entries are in a common pulldown?

The information should be in po-file in form of some form of extracted 
comments inserted by the program which generates the pot-file. That 
program can get the information by parsing the XML file made be glade.

The format could for instance be something like this:

#. Mnemonic group "Search menu" with 3 items.
msgid "_Search..."
msgtext ""

#. Mnemonic group "Search menu" with 3 items.
msgid "Find _next"
msgtext ""

#. Mnemonic group "Search menu" with 3 items.
msgid "Find _previous"
msgtext ""

Best regards
- Byrial