[Gretl-users] questions about translation details

Ok, I have just done my first cvs commit (de.po) to see whether from that minute on gretl will stop working ;-) No seriously, before I can translate larger chunks I have some questions, because I very much realize that I am a novice at program translation. 1) actually unrelated to translation: could it be that some menu shortcuts are doubly defined in English gretl? Like "user's guide" and "check for updates" both receiving the u-shortcut in the help window. (I presume lower or uppercase is irrelevant, right?) 2) Speaking about menu shortcuts, what letter to choose for menu shortcuts in the translations? Is there a rule, or am I free to choose whatever I like? (Related info: It seems that in the existing translation in some cases there is a shortcut in English, but not in the corresponding German string.) 3) Is it really necessary to "translate" menu separators appearing as strings? Or could they even be marked as not requiring translation in the sources? 4) To test out the effect of the changes without building myself, are the changes automatically included in the windows snapshot http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe? At what interval is the snapshot brought up to date? 5) In the de.po file it says something about project id gretl 1.3.0.1, which sounds outdated. Something I can/should change? Thanks much for your help, cheers, Sven