Re: [eboard-devel] translate message with gettext into Japanese

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, IKEDA Katsumi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Eboard is great chess application.
>
> So I want to translate messages into Japanese with gettext.
> It seems eboard.hemp is a template and witten in windows-1252.
>
> Japanese code (EUC-JP) cannot exist with windows-1252 in one plain text,
> so I must tranlate it.


Hi, starting with eboard 0.9.5, its translation system is no longer based
on GNU gettext. The .hemp file is written in plain ASCII (ISO8859-1 is a
superset of ASCII, if you need a ISO8859 encoding).

I believe that the proper way to make a japanese translation is writing it
in S-JIS and configuring your local GTK to use S-JIS fonts. However, S-JIS
is a multibyte font and I really don't know whether it'll work properly
with GTK 1.2.x, which eboard is based on.

Still in 2004 eboard will be ported to GTK+ 2.x.x, which is said to
support encodings (like Unicode) much better. eboard is currently
having issues with czech due to the encoding and I have decided that
moving to GTK 2 will be the best solution. Maybe it's a good idea to wait
for eboard to be ported to GTK 2 before starting a japanese translation.

> Do all messages have to translate ?

All messages in the .hemp _should_ be translated. If you translate only
some of them, the remaining will appear in english.

Thanks for the interest in translating eboard.

-- Felipe Bergo