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[Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Jamil A. <its...@gm...>]

Hi,

Today I downloaded CVS version of Gaim [windows platform] from,
http://geddeth.dk/downloads/gaim/

But I could not change the UI language?

Recently I submitted Bengali translation. And the about box includes 
Bengali translators name. So I wanted to check the translation through 
executing Gaim. Help!

Best,
`Jamil

Re: [Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:21:19AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I downloaded CVS version of Gaim [windows platform] from,
> http://geddeth.dk/downloads/gaim/

I have no clue who that is or how they are building gaim.  They may
have disabled internationalization, or not included the message files.

> 
> But I could not change the UI language?

Gaim follows the language selected during installation for win32
installs, unless overridden by the GAIMLANG environment variable.  On
unix installs, gaim uses english, else the $LANG variable.

I do not know how to set environment variables on windows.

> 
> Recently I submitted Bengali translation. And the about box includes 
> Bengali translators name. So I wanted to check the translation through 
> executing Gaim. Help!

I'd suggest building gaim yourself for this purpose.

> 
> Best,
> `Jamil

hope this helps,
luke

Re: [Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Jamil A. <its...@gm...>]

Luke Schierer wrote:

>>But I could not change the UI language?
>>    
>>
>
>Gaim follows the language selected during installation for win32
>installs, unless overridden by the GAIMLANG environment variable.  On
>unix installs, gaim uses english, else the $LANG variable.
>  
>

After setting GAIMLANG=bn environment variable, it worked. Thanks! :-)

But why Bengali is not listed in the installation screen? What needs to 
be done to list Bengali in the installation screen? So people will not 
need to configure the environment variable.

Best,
`Jamil

Re: [Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:44:06AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> >>But I could not change the UI language?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Gaim follows the language selected during installation for win32
> >installs, unless overridden by the GAIMLANG environment variable.  On
> >unix installs, gaim uses english, else the $LANG variable.
> > 
> >
> 
> After setting GAIMLANG=bn environment variable, it worked. Thanks! :-)
> 
> But why Bengali is not listed in the installation screen? What needs to 
> be done to list Bengali in the installation screen? So people will not 
> need to configure the environment variable.
> 
> Best,
> `Jamil

the NSIS system that is used by gaim for the win32 installer is
handled separately from the rest of gaim's source, and is not
translated via the .po files.  For any given language to be used by
the installer, two things have to happen
1)NSIS itself has to have support for the language
2)Gaim just have a .nsh file for it.  you can find the existing .nsh
files in gaim/src/win32/nsis/translations

currently we have
albanian.nsh
dutch.nsh
hebrew.nsh
polish.nsh
simp-chinese.nsh
vietnamese.nsh
bulgarian.nsh
english.nsh
hungarian.nsh
portuguese-br.nsh
slovak.nsh
catalan.nsh
finnish.nsh
italian.nsh
portuguese.nsh
slovenian.nsh
french.nsh
japanese.nsh
romanian.nsh
spanish.nsh
czech.nsh
galician.nsh
korean.nsh
russian.nsh
swedish.nsh
danish.nsh
german.nsh
norwegian.nsh
serbian-latin.nsh
trad-chinese.nsh


I asked our win32 guy about Bengali, and he says that NSIS doesn't
have support for it, so simply providing the .nsh file will not be
sufficient for that language.

luke

Re: [Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Jamil A. <its...@gm...>]

Luke Schierer wrote:

>I asked our win32 guy about Bengali, and he says that NSIS doesn't
>have support for it, so simply providing the .nsh file will not be
>sufficient for that language.
>  
>

So, the only option is to use environment variable. :-/

IIRC, NSIS is used in OpenOffice.org too and it can render CTL / UTF-8 
texts. Bengali is CTL also. Anyway, there might be some other issues.. I 
don't know.

`Jamil

Re: [Gaim-i18n] How to test Gaim L10n

[Erdal R. <erd...@gm...>]

Hi,

we have the same problem with Kurdish. Not exactly the same, because 
there is a Kurdish translation of NSIS. But there is no Kurdish 
.nsh-file in GAIM. Is it sufficient to translate one of the .nsh-files 
into Kurdish and send it to this mailinglist?

Regards,
Erdal
> the NSIS system that is used by gaim for the win32 installer is
> handled separately from the rest of gaim's source, and is not
> translated via the .po files.  For any given language to be used by
> the installer, two things have to happen
> 1)NSIS itself has to have support for the language
> 2)Gaim just have a .nsh file for it.  you can find the existing .nsh
> files in gaim/src/win32/nsis/translations