[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Working on the Chinese version of tuxtype

[Frederic Muller]

Please find attached the po file. Phrase typing (which is under Options 
- shouldn't it be in the main menu?) is not in the po file. Porject info 
also is not in the PO file but a xml file (which can change by country). 
Shouldn't it be in the PO file instead?

And i've had the following other issues:
- Edit word list segfaults on Ubuntu Karmic using debian package from 
unstable (version 1.8)
- Other themes don't work (even using the -t parameter). I just got 
English and now Chinese running.

Thanks.

Fred


Frederic Muller wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Found out that I needed a setting.txt with the encoding for Chinese in 
> order for the tuxtype.mo file to be taken into consideration. 
> Apparently the setting is not saved though (next run of tuxtype 
> reverts to English). Since my default language is US maybe it is normal?
>
> Else have you considered putting the theming/localization page on a 
> wiki style page on your site so "we" can all contribute and update it 
> easily?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
> Frederic Muller wrote:
>> Dear Everyone,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the prompt responses, I have started to follow up on 
>> the indications you gave me and I already have questions:
>> I found the theming documentation, the lang.po and the po/tuxtype.pot 
>> (we started from an existing po file) but they both are located in 
>> the following directory which seems strange to me:
>> tux4kids/branches/commonification/tuxtype/branches/gsoc-sarah/
>>
>> When looking at tux4kids/trunk/ I don't find any of those files. Is 
>> it normal or is gsoc-sarah the active branch?
>>
>> I have also failed to actually see my translation at all. I assumed 
>> that just adding the tuxtype.mo in local-langpack/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ 
>> should work (on debian/Ubuntu platform) but it's not doing anything 
>> (started the application with LANG=zh_CN).
>>
>> Next I'll discuss about Chinese typing specificities but we're 
>> actually fine teaching QWERTY since it is the keyboards in use.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> David Bruce wrote:
>>> Hi Frederic,
>>>
>>>  
>>>>> We've been searching on how to solve this issues for a while. Found 2
>>>>> thread on the forum and very little information on the theming. We 
>>>>> already
>>>>> have translated the po files for Chinese (latest version) but not 
>>>>> all the
>>>>> texts/menus are inside.
>>>>>       
>>>
>>> Translations of the text in the menus are handled by GNU gettext using
>>> the po file for your language.  All of the strings to be translated
>>> should be in the template file, which is po/tuxtype.pot in the source
>>> tree.  AFAIK, they are all in there in our current release, but please
>>> let me know if something is missing.
>>>
>>>  
>>>>> We're now looking at the scripts and words folders
>>>>> but again can't find all the menus.
>>>>>       
>>>
>>> The scripts and words (that is, the theme-specific "content") are not
>>> translated by gettext, so they don't have any corresponding entries in
>>> the po files.  For the word lists, you simply create text files with
>>> all the desired words, one per line, with the first line being the
>>> title to be displayed in the menu.  For the xml scripts, the best
>>> advice is to copy one of the existing ones and edit the content as
>>> needed.
>>>
>>> Also, you need to make a keyboard.lst file, which is our inelegant way
>>> of specifying what characters are "typable" with the keyboard layout
>>> for that language.
>>>
>>> The best advice would be to study some of the existing themes and see
>>> how they work.  Go to tuxtype's theme data directory (e.g.
>>> /usr/local/share/tuxtype/themes with a default "./configure; make;
>>> sudo make install"), create a "chinese" directory, and add your
>>> keyboard.lst and word lists below that.
>>>
>>>  
>>>>> Where is the best place to start and can we post the po file for 
>>>>> tuxtype
>>>>> on this list?
>>>>>       
>>>
>>> Yes, this list is fine - just put everything into a *.tar.gz and 
>>> attach it.
>>>
>>> Also (*important*) - I'm not sure the recent builds of tuxtype handle
>>> non-Western keyboard input correctly.  I do know that it will display
>>> the text properly, but it is possible we have some bugs that will
>>> interfere with the actual game.  If so, it is something critical to
>>> get fixed.  I would really like any feedback you have on that.
>>>
>>> Also - just to be sure, our most recent release is 1.8.0
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> David Bruce
>>>
>>>   
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