Re: [Translation-i18n] nano trouble with Vietnamese translation

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Phan Vinh Thinh wrote:
> Please check this screenshot:
> http://iatp.vspu.ac.ru/phan/transproj/nano-vi-err.png
> There are some "anomalous" characters. The title should be "B=E1=BB=99 =
=C4=91=E1=BB=87m
> m=E1=BB=9Bi" (New buffer), but displayed... Same with menu at the bottom.
> What can be the reason? BTW, you can take translated .po from here:
> http://iatp.vspu.ac.ru/phan/transproj/nano-1.3.5.po.gz
>  Some info:
> mlterm, uxterm, urxvt, kconsole, bash in UTF-8 mode give the same
> error.

The PO file looks OK. It also displays the string "B=E1=BB=99 =C4=91=E1=BB=
=87m m=E1=BB=9Bi" correctly,
when vim is used as a text editor. So it must be a bug in 'nano'.

What is the display engine that nano uses? It is apparently based on ncurse=
s.
Unfortunately, the ncurses library doesn't support the multiple combining
characters (multiple accents per letter) that are essential for Vietnamese.
There is a curses specification that would support Vietnamese, at
  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/cursesix.html
but AFAIK there is no free implementation of it available.

Thomas, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Bruno