Re: Translation of modifier keys

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org>]

En vie, 2001-09-21 a 20:54, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen escribio:
> well in .dk they always say: caps lock, Ctrl, Alt, Alt Gr, Print Scrn,
> Scroll Lock, Pause Break, Home, End and so forth.
> 


My laptop (Spanish) has: Bloq Mayus, Ctrl, Alt, Alt Gr, Impr Pant, Scr
Lk, Pausa Inter,  Inicio, Fin, RePag, AvPag...

So here we have those keys translated.

> I have never seen it differently.
> 
> If you mark then, please add a comment also
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> 
> On fre, 2001-09-21 at 20:30, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > I just wanted to get a broader reaction on:
> > 
> >   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60590
> > 
> >   The keyboard shortcuts that are displayed in application menus, for example
> >   "Ctl+V", should have their individual key names translated.
> > 
> >   The reason is that keys are named differently on different keyboard
> >   layouts. For example "Ctl" is named "Strg" on German keyboards, "Shft"
> >   should be "Skift" in Swedish, etc. It would be great if all key names could
> >   be translated by translators in GTK+, and these translated key names used
> >   in the menus of GTK+ applications.
> > 
> > Currently, the keys always appear in the menu as "Shift", "Ctrl", 
> > and "Alt". Marking these for translation is the work of a minute,
> > but before doing that, I'd like to ask:
> > 
> >  - Is there are a standard for what appears on the keyboard for
> >    your locale? (I know in some places, symbols are used instead
> >    of words as well.)
> >   
> >  - Is there a danger of over-translation here? (That is, translating
> >    Alt to something that "means alt" rather than what appears on
> >    keyboards.)
> > 
> >  - What do other toolkits / operating systems do?
> > 
> > In theory, it would be possible to ask the Xkb extension of X what
> > actually appears on the keyboard, but in practice, that isn't going
> > to be properly configured in 99% of all cases.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >                                         Owen
> > 
> > [ Please Cc: me on replies - I'm not subscribed to gnome-i18n ]
> > 
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