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

[Pockey Lam]

Dear David, 

Translated to Simplified Chinese and gave it to Fred. 

By the way, in the time zone of lessons: "sec" (second) is not in this
PO file. 

Thanks,
Pockey

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 17:04 -0600, David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
> 
> >> Dear David,
> >>
> >> Checking (again)
> >> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/tux4kids/tuxtype/trunk/po/#_tuxtype_trunk_po_
> >> it
> >> really appears that the pot file is currently missing.
> >
> > OK, I looked in the svn repository itself rather than my checked-out
> > copy, and you're right - po/tuxtype.pot isn't saved in svn.  The
> > reason is that it is auto-generated during the build process (like all
> > the *.mo files).  If you build tuxtype from a svn checkout, you should
> > have it. I'll attach it in an email when I am back at my own computer.
> 
> The template file is attached. Also, I've added it to svn. By the way,
> it is included in the tarball, so that would be another way to find
> it.
> 
> >> Also in lessons and phrase typing there are counters on the right side :
> >> where can we translate Time, Sec, Chars, CPM, WPM, Errors and Accuracy.
> 
> Those are in the tuxtype.pot file.
> 
> >> Also note that Comet Zap instruction button is missing from the list
> >> (only
> >> the 4 different levels are accessible - already translated the xml file
> >> with
> >> the instructions though).
> 
> We might need to figure out a different way to display the
> instructions - this is sort of leftover code from the previous
> maintainer that I haven't studied all that carefully.
> 
> >> And finally (for now) in the project page the first screen seems cut off
> >> before the end of the text not showing the license information and the
> >> press
> >> the spacebar to continue instruction.
> 
> The other issues I wanted to mention were:
> 
> 1. Fonts - this is handled automatically on Linux by SDL_Pango, but
> for Windows, BeOS/Haiku and OS-X we need to include a font to display
> Chinese characters (at least until we get SDL_Pango working).  We use
> fonts that are included in Debian/Ubuntu.  The exact font name needs
> to be listed in your theme's settings.txt file.  I can take care of
> adding the font itself if you can tell me what Chinese font is best.
> 
> 2. Locale - the settings.txt file also needs to specify the desired
> locale  - e.g.:
> 
> theme_locale_name= fr_FR.utf8.
> 
> We have used UTF-8 encoding for all the locales (and all the word
> lists).  It is therefore possible for the translation to fail if the
> user's computer lacks the exact locale specified by the theme - not
> sure of the best way to make this more fail-safe.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
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