[Debconf-devel] Bug#918939: Bug#918939: debconf: program french translation

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 06:46:37PM +0100, Baptiste Jammet wrote:
> Please find attached the updated french translation of the debconf program. 
> This file should be put as po/fr.po in your package build tree.
> 
> The msgids to update begin with "_" and are in the Gnome frontend
> (_Quit, _Next and _Back).
> I think this is for some shortcut, but don't know if I have to indicate them,
> or if I should prepend the french word with _ (even with a different letter?)
> For the moment, I only translate the msgid, but don't hesitate to ask me for
> an update if needed.

The embedded "_" characters indicate accelerator keys used with
Alt+<key>, and yes, you do need to take care of this in the translation.
Please precede a suitable letter in the translated string with a "_"
character.

It's best if the accelerator keys can be distinct, although I think GTK+
provides some way to cope if they aren't (possibly just repeatedly
pressing the accelerator key; I haven't checked).

I'll wait for an amended version before applying this.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]