Re: danish characters and wording

[Jonas S. <jo...@jo...>]

On 22 Mar 2002, klavs klavsen wrote:

> Hi again guys,
>
> I tried to create a postscript invoice, and it worked fine.
>
> I have to "problems" with it.
>
> 1) the letters æøå (danish characters) were missing.
>  - how can I fix this?
>
> 2) the Qty. and other lines were not in danish
>  - how can I fix this?
>
> p.s. I read in another post, that when there is no translation for
> something, it gets written in english instead. Is that what happened in
> 2? if so, then if you could please tell me where I can fix this, I'll be
> happy to add the necessary translation and send it back to you guys so
> that everyone can have a completely danish invoice :-)

Hi Klavs (and the list)!

The short answer is "ps and pdf only works in english currently"...

Announcements contain hints not included with the distribution. If you
want all possible hints from Dieter (besides mailing him directly) you
will need to read both packaged documentation, web-based ChangeLog and
mailinglist announcements. The following is from Dieter's announcement of
version 1.8.3:

> The templates are provided in English only. All foreign language
> templates have to be translated yet. They are shipped so the program
> won't generate a 'file not found' error.

To correct the problem three different things needs to be worked out:

1) This is LaTeX related. Danish requires 8bit iso8859-1, other western
european countries requires 8bit iso8859-15 and chinese probably some
16bit (double-byte) characterset. Someone knowledgeble about LaTeX and
more-than-7bit charactersets please speak up!

2) "Translation aware" strings are located in locale/<language-code>. Edit
the "all" file and run ./locales.pl which splits it into the other files.

3) Not all text is "translation aware". I believe all strings coming from
the perl code itself is handled correctly now, but some text is hardcoded
in the templates (which means if Dieter creates new templates it is not
enough that locale is up-to-date).

 - Jonas

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