Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Finding malayalam translation file.

[Haris I. K. V. <blu...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 12 November 2011 21:40, David Bruce <dav...@gm...> wrote:

> To add a translation e.g. ml.po, start with po/tuxmath.pot (*.pot stands
> for po template) and edit, preferably with a dedicated po file editor to
> avoid syntax errors but any text editor will do.  Make sure to fill out the
> authorship header info properly.  Put ml.po alongside the other po files.
> Also, add the new language code to po/LINGUAS.
>
I used 'poedit' and followed your instructions and successfully created
ml.po. I also added 'ml' to LINGUAS. However, I did not get what you meant
by "authorship header info".


> Important - the po files must be encoded in UTF-8.
>
> Next time you run "sudo make install", the machine-readable *.gmo file
> will be generated and installed.
>
The *.gmo file was successfully created.


> To test the translation, run tuxmath with the desired locale set, e.g.
> "LANG=ml_ML.UTF-8 tuxmath" or similar.  You need to have the desired locale
> installed on your machine for this to work.  IIRC, sometimes you need to
> set the LANGUAGE environmental variable instead of LANG.
>
When I ran it as follows:

haris@asylum:~$ LANG=ml_IN.UTF-8 tuxmath

I got a "segmentation fault" and the game didn't even start. However, the
follwing worked.

haris@asylum:~$ LANGUAGE=ml_IN.UTF-8 tuxmath
Initializing Tux4Kids-Common 0.1.1
T4K_BlackOutline(): invalid ptr parameter, returning.

It took quite a while for the game to be loaded and also the game crashed
when I pressed 'esc' to return to the main menu from the second menu with
the error message as above.

> We can make this a GCI task.
>
I had translated one single string to check it out. But how do I know if
the translation was successful or not?


> On Nov 12, 2011 1:25 AM, "Haris Ibrahim K. V." <blu...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you all for helping out with the destination of the translation
>> files.
>>
>> On 11 November 2011 14:30, David Bruce <dav...@gm...>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Haris,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <
>>> blu...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Please tell me where I can find the translation files in tuxmath and
>>>> tuxtype. Especially the malayalam translation file.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For tuxmath and tuxtype, the translation files are po/*.po in the source
>>> tree.  Offhand, I think malayalam is ml.po but I might have the
>>> abbreviation wrong.   Tuxtype also has language-specific "themes" with word
>>> lists and sometimes xml lessons that are under e.g. data/themes/malayalam/.
>>>
>>
>> However it seems that there is no malayalam translation file for tuxmath.
>> Not in the po directory nor in data/. (I found one for tuxtype called
>> ml.po). I'm not sure if what I'm asking would be correct, but is it
>> possible to add a ml.po file that holds malayalam translations to tuxmath?
>> I'm not sure how it can be done.
>>
>> And if possible, it could be put up as a translation task for GCI. I
>> could review it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
>>
>
Regards,

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