Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Incorrectly translated string in many languages

Hi Mihkel

It does not work for Dutch.
Shift+, gives < and Ctrl+Shift+, does not give anything.
I use version 7.0.0.1 and under Windows 10
And the keyoard is US Internationaal

Kind regards, Kees

Mihkel Tõnnov schreef op 08.07.2020 20:57:
> Hi *,
>
> There's a problematic string in LibO UI cui/messages.po which for many
> languages has been impossible to properly localize:
> "Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet cell? Type %MOD1+; or
> Shift+%MOD1+; to insert the time."
>
> Many European keyboard layouts don't have a dedicated semicolon key
> (Shift+comma is used instead), so only one of these shortcuts works 
> (the
> one for time).
>
> For a handful of languages, there has been an exception added to the 
> code
> to use %MOD1+comma and Shift+%MOD1+comma instead:
> Finnish (fi) - translations still refers to semicolon
> Portuguese in Europe (pt) - translation completely omits the 
> second/third
> key in the shortcut
> Portuguese in Brasil (pt-BR) - translations still refers to semicolon
> Russian (ru) - translations still refers to semicolon
> Spanish (es) (not translated)
>
> Starting from LibreOffice 7.0, the same exception is added for a number 
> of
> additional languages [1]:
> Albanian (sq)
> Bosnian (bs)
> Croatian (hr)
> Danish (da)
> Dutch in the Netherlands (nl-NL)
> German (de)
> Estonian (et)
> Faroese (fo)
> Icelandic (is)
> Italian (it)
> Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
> Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) - also translation probably should say "Tast 
> «%MOD1
> + ,» eller «Shift + %MOD1 + ,»" not "Skriv" ;)
> Romanian (ro)
> Serbian (sr)
> Slovenian (sl)
> Swedish (sv)
> Turkish (tr) - also typo in existing translation of "%MOD1"
>
> Members of these language teams should test (using the daily builds) if 
> the
> shortcut works on a system that uses their language for UI [2].
> If it does, their translation of the above string should refer to comma
> key, not semicolon key.
> And if it doesn't work, let me know (along with details about your OS
> locale and keyboard and LibO locale/UI language).
>
> Also, I suspect we will need to add exceptions for more languages 
> still.
> So, if your language is not mentioned above, and your keyboard doesn't 
> have
> a separate semicolon key either, then please let me know. I think the
> European "smaller" languages are probable candidates here (Lower/Upper
> Sorbian, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Venetian, etc.)
>
> [1] See https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/94305
> [2] The exception is unfortunately dependent on UI language, not actual
> keyboard layout or even locale - see
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134470
>
> Best regards,
> Mihkel
> Estonian translator

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