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

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

Hi,

On 12 November 2011 22:51, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blu...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that without setting the locale too, I'm not able to return to
> the main menu from the second menu using the 'esc' key. It just quits
> without an error warning. Also, the arrow buttons at the bottom right
> corner disappears once we get to the second menu. That is, the menu we get
> after we click 'play alone'.
>
> Is that a bug or could we add that "arrow button" problem to the task list
> of GCI?
>
>
Sorry. I just realized that arrow button was to get the rest of the options
and not a forward-backward' button. I got confused with it. I think the
user interface can be improved there however.


>
> On 12 November 2011 22:46, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blu...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
>> sosaysharis.wordpress.com
>>
>>
> Cheers!
>
>
> --
> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
> sosaysharis.wordpress.com
>
>


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