[Fsf-friends] Dr Geo in Indian languages...

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

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>From fred@bytesforall.org Sat Aug 23 11:49:29 2003


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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:05:26 +0200
From: Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@ext.cri74.org>
To: jnshah <jnshah@bom7.vsnl.net.in>
Cc: ofset-drgenius-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
	indic-computing-users@lists.sourceforge.net, amba@iiit.net,
	indlinux-marathi-request@lists.sourceforge.net, tdk12@rediffmail.com
Organization: OFSET
Subject: [Indic-computing-users] DrGeo in indian languages!

WAKE UP ! Time to translate properly DrGeo in Indian languages.

Mr Jitendra Shah already sent me .po files of Indian languages but these
files need to be largely updated (I think the Marathi is already in good
shape). Whoever is reponsible to update the language files, contact me
directly so I can send you directly your updated file to translate, it is
important I send you an updated file otherwise your translation may be only
partial. To this date there are abot 426 messages, if updated in regular
basis it is little job, only the first shot is painfull.

Regards,

Hilaire


On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:49:12 +0530
jnshah <jnshah@bom7.vsnl.net.in> wrote:

Dear Hilaire and all,

We are Final year BE Computer students from VJTI mumbai working under Prof.
Jitendra Shah on project named L10N & I18N.  We are trying to localize
drgenius in marathi,one of the prominent Indian langugae.
     
We are attempting to port drgenius to gnome2 as per suggestion of Hilaire . 
However to make the existing version localised, we did the following.
     
Please help and suggest ways out.
We followed following steps:
      
1. We took  drgenius.pot and translated the messages in the same in
Marathi (an Indian language with mr_IN as international name),  file 
in 8-bit ISCII format. Then we unzipped drgenius-0.8.3.tar.gz to a location.
3. Then we added "mr" to ALL_LINGUA in ./configure script
4. We followed normal installation procedure (./configure, make,
make install)
5. After installation we got drgenius.gmo in
/usr/local/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/
We hoped this would work. It didnot.
     
But we didn't know how to switch from default "english" language to "mr" We
noted that "hi" was built in. We changed locale to mr. Still it didnot work.
     
So we copied that file to
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/
i.e. to system locale directory

Next we changed locale from en_US to hi when we executed drgenius blanks
were seen instead of translated messages. Thuis it appeared that our
translated file was being accessed and ascii characters therin were being
read but only non-ascii characters were not displayed.  We tried to copy
fonts at various places. Fonts are isciidev.ttf from IIIT Hyderabad courtesy
Amba Kulkarni.

           We tried to place the same in
           /usr/share/fonts/indic/TrueType
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
           ~/.fonts
     
          But  that too didn't  work.
     
        Where should we place the font so that it's
           visible to drgenius ?
           We are able to use isciidev.ttf in
            gedit
            kate
            kwrite
            kword
                  That means it is being installed
             Then why drgenius is not able to find it?
           
         we are waiting for your reply.
         Please send mail to:
                    darkhorse_vjti@yahoogroups.com   and jitendras@vsnl.com
     
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