Paul Elliott wrote:
> I am writting a program in gtkmm. Code that creates menu items typically
> looks like this:
>
> menulist.push_back( Gtk::Menu_Helpers::MenuElem("_Edit",
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &TreeView_WithPopup::on_menu_file_popup_generic)=
> ) );
> menulist.push_back( Gtk::Menu_Helpers::MenuElem("_Process",
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &TreeView_WithPopup::on_menu_file_popup_generic)=
> ) );
> menulist.push_back( Gtk::Menu_Helpers::MenuElem("_Remove",
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &TreeView_WithPopup::on_menu_file_popup_generic)=
> ) );
>
> The character "_" in menu element names means that the character
> following will be a keyboard shortcut. But these characters must
> not be duplicated for a given menu.
>
> Do translators know how "_" is used to define shortcuts and how to
> choose "_" character to avoid duplications?
I think does it ( msgfmt(1) ):
--check-accelerators[=CHAR]
check presence of keyboard accelerators for menu items
> What comments are appropriate to inform translators what is going on?
You can enable xgettext to insert comments in the resulting po-s if you define some regexp that should match a comment
right before the line that uses gettext. Look in the xgetext manpage.
> Any sample code with appropriate comments?
>
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Regards,
EddyP
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