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

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

Hi all,

I was having the following trouble and I had mailed a while ago. If anyone
could spare time, please let me know what I'm missing.

@David: I'd like to make the translation a GCI second wave task. That is
why I'd like to know what I have done wrong.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blu...@gm...>
Date: 4 December 2011 23:39
Subject: Re: Malayalam translation files in tuxmath.
To: Tux...@li..., David Bruce <
dav...@gm...>


Hi,

On 4 December 2011 23:23, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blu...@gm...> wrote:

> 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?
>

The following are the relevant lines from the output of my 'make install'.
I'm installing it in a non-standard location.

/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `../../po/ml.gmo': No such file or directory
installing ../../po/ml.gmo as
/home/haris/tux4kids/build/tuxmath/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/tuxmath.mo



>
>
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>
Regards,

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