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Ricardo Palomares Martinez

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Jul 6, 2006, 4:28:41 PM7/6/06
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Hi,

Andrés and me are revising some browser strings and he has found this:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/sidebar/sidebar.properties#5

"Start &using it right away"

The "&" is a typo, isn't it?

TIA

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Steffen Wilberg

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Jul 6, 2006, 4:50:52 PM7/6/06
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Ricardo Palomares Martinez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrés and me are revising some browser strings and he has found this:
>
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/sidebar/sidebar.properties#5
>
> "Start &using it right away"
>
> The "&" is a typo, isn't it?
>
> TIA
>
No, the "&" is specifying the next character as accesskey. It's in the
dialog that asks if you want to install a search engine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php

Steffen

Axel Hecht

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Jul 6, 2006, 5:21:05 PM7/6/06
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Ricardo Palomares Martinez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrés and me are revising some browser strings and he has found this:
>
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/sidebar/sidebar.properties#5
>
> "Start &using it right away"
>
> The "&" is a typo, isn't it?

No, that's the accesskey, see
http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIPromptService.html,
second paragraph.

Axel

Stephen Holt

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Jul 7, 2006, 4:01:55 AM7/7/06
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Hi,

I just noticed the following line at the top of the
browser/chrome/browser.dtd file in the Firefox source:

<!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE : FILE Do not translate accesskey and commandkey
-->

Surely at least the access keys should be translated however, so they
match a suitable letter in the new language string. For example I
translated "File" to "Dosiye" in Kinyarwanda, but if I leave the access
key as "F" then I get a rather unsightly "Dosiye (F)" menu. Shouldn't I
change the access key to "D"?

Cheers,
Steve.



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Stephen Holt

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Jul 7, 2006, 4:02:03 AM7/7/06
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Hi,

I just noticed the following line at the top of the
browser/chrome/browser.dtd file in the Firefox source:

<!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE : FILE Do not translate accesskey and commandkey
-->

Surely at least the access keys should be translated however, so they
match a suitable letter in the new language string. For example I
translated "File" to "Dosiye" in Kinyarwanda, but if I leave the access
key as "F" then I get a rather unsightly "Dosiye (F)" menu. Shouldn't I
change the access key to "D"?

Cheers,
Steve.





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Marek Stepien

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Jul 7, 2006, 6:30:15 AM7/7/06
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Stephen Holt napisał(a):

> Surely at least the access keys should be translated however, so they
> match a suitable letter in the new language string. For example I
> translated "File" to "Dosiye" in Kinyarwanda, but if I leave the access
> key as "F" then I get a rather unsightly "Dosiye (F)" menu. Shouldn't I
> change the access key to "D"?

Change the accesskey to "D". That localization note is a mistake.

You should never change the command keys, though.

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Axel Hecht

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Jul 7, 2006, 7:47:08 AM7/7/06
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Marek Stepien wrote:
> Stephen Holt napisał(a):
>> Surely at least the access keys should be translated however, so they
>> match a suitable letter in the new language string. For example I
>> translated "File" to "Dosiye" in Kinyarwanda, but if I leave the access
>> key as "F" then I get a rather unsightly "Dosiye (F)" menu. Shouldn't I
>> change the access key to "D"?
>
> Change the accesskey to "D". That localization note is a mistake.

Mind filing a bug on that?

Axel

Marek Stepien

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Jul 7, 2006, 1:23:05 PM7/7/06
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Axel Hecht napisał:

>> Change the accesskey to "D". That localization note is a mistake.
> Mind filing a bug on that?

Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343883

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