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To reproduce (from TVT step 8.1, traditional Chinese): 1. Select Perspective > Customize... 2. Expand "Other" 3. Look at Software Updates in any DB language (e.g., simplified Chinese) or Spanish. The text is not correctly displayed. In Spanish, only the first word is shown. In simplified Chinese, only "(S)" is displayed, i.e., the character glyph is lost. The problem appears to stem from the usage of an accelerator character in the text string ("&Software Updates"): <actionSet label="%S_Software_Updates" visible="false" id="org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.UpdateManagerActionSet"> Apparently the tree view can't handle this sort of character in some languages. However, there is a more fundamental problem. In many languages, the noun and verb are not the same. For example, "search" is both a noun and a verb in English. However, in French, the noun is "recherche" and the verb is "rechercher". In German and other languages, the difference is not as subtle, much like the difference between "look for" and "search" -- i.e., you can't treat "look for" as a noun and it would look silly as an action set name. The action sets are normally named with a noun, the actions themselves are verbs. In this specific case, the developer specified the same string for both. Unfortunately, this also included an accelerator character (&S), which exposed this bug. Suggested fix: Separate the two into separate fields, as shown below: (from org.eclipse.update/plugin.xml) <actionSet label="%S_Software_Updates" visible="false" id="org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.UpdateManagerActionSet"> <action label="%S_Software_Updates_Action" class="org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.UMDialogAction" menubarPath="help/helpEnd" id="org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.UpdateManagerAction"> </action> </actionSet> and corresponding changes to org.eclipse.update\plugin.properties: S_Eclipse_Update_Manager_Plugin = Install/Update Manager # note: action set name S_Software_Updates = Software Updates # note: action set action S_Software_Updates_Action_Set = &Software Updates... S_Software_Updates_Preferences = Software Updates
Changed to v1.0.
Created attachment 86 [details] Show View dialog display problem if string contains accelerator character (&)
FYI... here is a problem that is probably related, pointing to the possibility that accelerator characters in tree view's is problematic. -------------------- Translation of "&PDE Runtime" to "PDE RANTAIMU(&P)" (in DBCS Japanese) in Show View dialog causes the text corrupted to "P)". This problem has been bypassed by changing translation to "&PDE RANTAIMU". See attached image.
No longer applicable. The R1.0 update support is withdrawn in 2.0.
Would you clarify a bit? I see it in the project plan for 2.0 (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-update- home/main.html). Will this be updated to reflect this decommit? This isn't an idle question, I'm on the Jumpstart team that also delivers a class that includes references to Software Update. If it is being dropped, we will drop it from the class as well. Thanks, Dan
Nevermind, Jim D'Anjou pointed out that there's a new perspective that replaces the 1.0 version. I took your response a bit too literally, sorry. -- Dan
