[Indic-computing-users] Localising DrGenius in Marathi

[jnshah <jn...@bo...>]

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
2. 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:
              dar...@ya...   and jit...@vs...