Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Malayalam translation files in tuxmath.

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

Hi,

On 13 November 2011 20:37, 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.
>

Due to some issues, I had to clone the tuxmath repo once again and I
followed the above steps in order to create a ml.po file. However, after
running 'sudo make install', the ml.gmo file was not created. But the ml.mo
file was there.

Do I need to double check on something?


>
>
>> 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?
>
> --
> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
> sosaysharis.wordpress.com
>
>
Regards,

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