Re: [libreoffice-l10n] LibreOffice and key names

Op maandag 27 augustus 2012 09:32:35 schreef Joan Montané:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for a little off-topic, but It's a i18n /l10n issue and maybe
> other languages have the same problem.
>
> Currently, LibreOffice take key names from OS. That is, it can't be
> localized at LibreOffice side. I'm talking about "Shift, Control, Alt,
> Backspace, Print Scren,..." key names strings.
>
> IMHO it's a bad approach. There are countries using the same keyboard
> for several languages. For example:in Spain the same keyboard is used
> to type in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Asturian. A LibO
> user with Catalan UI spects to get key names in Catalan when is
> working in LibreOffice, not in Spanish, French or English.
>
> Also, some OSes (read MS Windows) have the key names hardcoded at
> keyboard driver [1], so there is a single string for key is available.
> So languages without an own keyboard doesn't have any chance to get
> key names translated.
>
>
> I will open a bug/feature request at bugzilla to make keys names
> translatable at LibreOffice side. Whom can I assign it?
>
> Any hint?

In my view, key names are the names as they appear on the keys of the 
keyboard. So in your example where you use one keyboard for different 
languages, the names of the keys remain the same. So it makes perfectly sense 
to get these names from the OS, provided the user entered the right ID of the 
keyboard, which contains these names, in the OS. The functions of these keys 
is a different matter, they may change from language to language.
 
> Best regards,
>
> Joan Montané
>
> [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/03/26/1950492.aspx
-- 
fr.gr.

Freek de Kruijf


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