[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] tuxtype localization

[Frederic Muller]

Dear Fazeena,

You should really reply to the mailing list. I'll look into this either 
tomorrow or the day after (unless someone beats me to it).

Fred

On 12/11/2010 10:46 PM, Fazeena Jamaldeen wrote:
> Dear Mr.Fred,
>         As going through the project i have found some difficulties.
> Hope you will help me to sort out these problems.
> I have translated and added some new files to tamil/words folder. I have
> added files such as animals. But when I run the application, I cannot
> type the letters using my key board. Is it anything to do with the
> keyboard settings???
> The letters which come along with vowel signs are recognized as two
> characters by the application. But in Tamil it is considered as one
> letter. How can I overcome this problem??
> I included the animal file. But in the game I am getting two links for
> Animals where one is the earlier one and the other is the one I created.
> How can i delete the existing link?
> In the instructions page I found to create a lang.po file. But as I
> created it I couldn't make any use of it. Is it essential to create such
> file?
> What about the animations? How can i change the code and include
> those animations in my work.?
> Sir,
>   As this is my first project in localization I am stuck and hope you
> will help me to overcome these issues.
> Awaiting your reply,
>
> Fazeena.
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Fazeena Jamaldeen <jffazeena at gmail.com
> <mailto:jffazeena at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Fred,
>       Thank you very much for your reply. It helped me a lot. I
>     installed the application but the Tamil is not working properly.
>     Hoping to do a good job as a part of a project for my degree.
>     Thank you very much.
>     Hoping to contact you more if I have any problems regarding this
>     project.
>     Thank you.
>
>     Fazeena.
>
>
>     On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Frederic Muller
>     <fred at beijinglug.org <mailto:fred at beijinglug.org>> wrote:
>
>         Dear Fazeena,
>
>         While the topic has been discussed a few times on this mailing
>         list (the process is rather well documented), I will try to help
>         you out. You asking whether TAMIL has been translated seems to
>         tell you that you haven't even installed the application.
>
>         Localization is in fact a difficult task and one should be very
>         familiar with the application before attempting to translate it.
>
>         So while Tamil has been added in the supported languages it
>         seems the translation is not complete.
>
>         In order to translate tuxtyping, you need to:
>         1. Download a copy of the source code from the git repository
>         2. Create/look for a new folder into data/themes called 'tamil'
>         3. Create an images folder into data/themes/tamil
>         4. Copy keyboard.lst, settings.txt from the data folder into
>         data/themes/tamil (if the language exists, this is not needed)
>         5. Copy the scripts and words folders and their content from the
>         data folder into data/themes/tamil (be careful not to erase
>         existing work)
>         6. You can make the map by adding a file called map.png into the
>         themes/tamil/images folder. Map should be transparent png format
>         of 300 pixels wide x 200 pixels high. Use the file
>         data/images/word.png as a starting guide.
>         7. you will find the typing lessons in the
>         data/themes/tamil/scripts folder. You need to translate file
>         names and content (without removing the markup)
>         8. you can change the words lists (and screen translation) in
>         subfolder data/themes/tamil/words. Renaming the first line will
>         change what is selectable inside tuxtyping, changing the words
>         will... change the words into your own language (if it makes
>         sense for you).
>         9. Last (but not least) edit the file
>         data/themes/tamil/settings.txt and enter your language locale.
>         It should be something like: theme_locale_name=en_US.UTF-8 - but
>         with the locale value for tamil (in your case this should
>         already be done and correct)
>         10. Some might need to change keyboard.lst but again it should
>         already be done for tamil.
>
>         Hope that helps.
>
>         Let us know if you have any other question.
>
>         Thanks.
>
>         Fred
>
>
>         On 12/04/2010 11:19 PM, Fazeena Jamaldeen wrote:
>
>             Sir/Madam,
>                  I am a university student from SriLanka and I am
>             willing to know
>             about your Tuxtype localization project. It would be a great
>             pleasure if
>             i get a chance to participate in your localization project.
>             I would like
>             to know whether the game is already localized to Tamil. If
>             not, it would
>             be a great pleasure to join your development team in order
>             to localize
>             the project to Tamil. I am expecting your reply and the
>             procedures to
>             start the work. Expecting your reply...
>
>             Yours,
>             Sincerely,
>             Fazeena.
>
>
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