Re: [babel-translators] "Non-translatable" strings with keyboard acceler

[Hendrik Maryns <hamaryns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sean Flanigan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Marcus Nitzschke found [1] some text which translated "public static 
> void main(String[] args)" as "öffentlich statisch ungültig 
> Haupt(String[] Argumente)".
>
> This string is used by the New Java Class wizard to ask the user 
> whether it should include a method with the signature "public static 
> void main(String[] args)", so I agree with Marcus that the signature 
> shouldn't be translated.  Accordingly, I have marked this string as 
> non-translatable in Babel [2].
>
> However, I can think of one reason why marking this string as 
> non-translatable might be a bad idea - it prevents translators from 
> providing an alternative keyboard accelerator.  In fact, Eclipse Genie 
> was providing just that in the languages I checked, changing the 
> accelerator from V to G.
>
> By marking it as non-translatable, I have changed all languages to use 
> the same accelerator as English does.  Whether that's a good or bad 
> thing, I'm not entirely sure.
>
> Do you think strings which contain keyboard accelerators should always 
> be translatable?
Can't we instead split up accelerators and strings, as it is done in 
Mozilla?  That is, have a separate entity for each accelerator (hm, I 
think the proper name is access key here).
> Or is leaving these strings translatable just creating more work for 
> everyone?  Should I revert my change?
No.  Rather, a better solution should be found.


H.