On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
in the .po file I find the word 'P_rofile' - how does one translate this? or is it a typo?
_ means shortcut key. for P_rofile, Alt+r will be key for that menu/item. Translator will translate it as પ્રોફાઈલ (_r). However, some efforts like translating shortcut in l10n has started but I'm unsure about it!
btw, standard practice is to have your i18n stuff in a directory called locale with the following layout:
say you have german and tamil: ~/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ayttm.po ~/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/ayttm.po
Yes, this is correct.
I also see a lot of words beginning with '_'. Is this meant to happen?
Same as 1st explanation when first character is used for shortcut. Example: _File.