How to localize or translate properly

[kiraware]

Hello everyone, I want to help the localization of angry ip for Bahasa Indonesia (id). I have read translation guide at https://angryip.org/contribute/. I know I have to translate messages.properties to messages_id.properties. The problem comes when i read that content of the files. There is good text too translate and it's clear how to translate it, but sometimes there is a text that contain the ampersand character (&) in the middle of the text. I don't know what that means.

For example on this line

ipscan/resources/messages.properties

Line 67 in 16bb80b

menu.tools.select.withoutPorts=Without o&pen ports

As you can see, it looks weird, and i have no idea how to translate that text.

Also in these lines

ipscan/resources/messages.properties

Lines 11 to 26 in 16bb80b

	language.system=System default
	language.en=English
	language.ru=Русский
	language.de=Deutsch
	language.es=Español
	language.fi=Suomi
	language.gr=Ελληνικά
	language.fr=Français
	language.hu=Magyar
	language.it=Italiano
	language.ku=کوردی
	language.lt=Lietuvių
	language.tr=Türkçe
	language.pt_BR=Português (BR)
	language.zh_TW=正體中文
	language.zh_CN=简体中文

Am I responsible to add language.id=Bahasa Indonesia? Since there is no Indonesian translation before. I hope someone could give me guide how to translate it properly. Tagging maintainer @angryziber, if someone could point me out, I'll soon add a PR for Bahasa Indonesia. Thank you

[JonnyTech]

The ampersand symbol in GUI applications is usually indicative that the following character is a keyboard shortcut, therefore from your above example, Without o&pen ports means that the menu item is selected by ALT+P - so look to see how other translators have done it.

[kiraware]

The ampersand symbol in GUI applications is usually indicative that the following character is a keyboard shortcut

To make it clear, for example

Without o&pen ports is ALT+P
Without op&en ports is ALT+E
Without ope&n ports is ALT+N

Am I right?

Also how about the new language, should I added language.id=Bahasa Indonesia to messages.properties as I mentioned above?

[JonnyTech]

For the ampersand query, yes your examples are correct. Look at the other translations to see if they either selected another shortcut or removed it.

For the new language addition, yours is a reasonable assumption, but best wait for @angryziber to confirm.

[kiraware]

Thank you for your response

[angryziber]

@kiraware yep, please create messages_id.properties and either submit a Pull Request or attach it here