1350542 - Pontoon special character shortcuts

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Pontoon, defect, P3)

Description

[meskobalazs]

Attachment: Képernyőkép erről: 2017-03-25 12-16-05.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170310133403




Expected results:

Pootle has an option, to create a set of shortcuts for common special characters per locale. This is especially useful on OS-es other than Linux, as e.g. creating Hungarian quotes is quite painful. It would be great if Pontoon had something similar.

Attached screenshot just to be sure.

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(not sure why an unconfirmed bug is p2)

Comment 4

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

A good example of a use case is with the Guarani letter 'G̃/g̃' which is not a precomposed letter in Unicode and not part of virtual keyboards for Guarani (if any such keyboards exist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language#Writing_system

Comment 5

[Matjaz Horvat [:mathjazz]]

In Q3 we'll be rewriting the frontend code of the translate page.

Let's postpone this feature until we're done with the rewrite.

Comment 6

[Balázs Meskó]

Just for the record, if someone stumbles on this bug with a similar issue. My current workaround is using AutoHotKey, and it's quite a good solution, as it works everywhere. This is my AHK script:

^!Z::
Send, –
return
^!O::
Send, „
return
^!P::
Send, ”
return
^!T::
Send, …
return

AltGr+O and AltGr+P prints Hungarian quotation marks, AltGr+Z prints an en dash (we don't use em dashes), and AltGr+T prints the triple dot (which is now mostly redundant in Pontoon).

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

*This bug has been moved to GitHub.*

*Please check it out on https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/issues.*