Re: Bug#338056: Translation for aptitude

[Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>]

Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2005, 06:46 +0100 schrieb Christian Perrier:
> (please keep the CC list in answers. No need to CC me in private)
> 
> > 
> > These are the shortcut keys you need to press when answering a Yes/No
> > question.  While the aptitude developers care i18n enough to give the
> > possibility to localize this shortcut key, without a comment translators
> > won't know they are supposed to translate them to a single key that
> > stands for yes/no (in English, they'll be "y" and "n").  These shortcut
> > keys are used quite often, for example, in the dialog of quitting
> > aptitude.

Well, what i'm wondering is where has gone the file README.i18n from
aptitude's sources. It was pretty illustrating:

++
   * key translations

    Where it makes sense, aptitude allows the default keybinding
    assigned to a command to be translated.  This is done by creating
    a dummy translated string ending in "_key"; the first character of
    the string is the default binding of the key.  For instance, the
    string "yes_key" is used to set the default binding for buttons
    labelled "Yes".  To bind "j" to this command, you could translate
    "yes_key" to "ja_key", "ja", or even just "j".
 ++

> I'm pretty sure that there are pieces of codes or libraries that allow
> programs to use this without embarking their own "translation" of
> "Yes" and "No".

I think we have "rpmatch" in the GNU C library, but i was also not
successful trying to make it work :(