Jens Seidel, le Sat 26 Aug 2006 11:47:19 +0200, a écrit : > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:11:29AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Xt applications (like xfig, gv, xterm, ...) are currently not localized, > > while software support is already there, the traduction team just needs > > s/traduction/translation/ ????
Yes. Sorry for this frenchism. > > to work on translating labels in /etc/X11/app-defaults. > > > > For instance, the attached files are the ones that the xterm > > package should put in /etc/X11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/app-defaults/ for > > French localization (some UTF-8 versions should also be put into > > /etc/X11/fr_FR.UTF-8/app-defaults/) > > Could you please comment on the following: > > * X resource files do not only contain user visible strings but also > widget geometries, orientations, ... and other stuff. Yes. > Translating such file would duplicate some information. No. See the attached files: you can #include main files, and then override labels. > * What are the differences between resource file translations and using > gettext? I know that the gettext approach would require to add some > more code such as explicitly setting the button text via XtSetArgs > in the code but allows automatic encoding mapping from the PO file > encoding to the encoding used by Xt. Other (dis-)/advantages? Having to rework all these legacy applications. I doubt anybody will be brave enough to do this, compared to just using iconv for automatically producing appropriate copies. > * Are you sure that UTF-8 is supported????? I thought Xt applications > are only capable to handle 8 bit characters. Xlib supports UTF-8, and I can read in Xt some references to Xmb* functions. Now, it happens that even if I run my xterm in an UTF-8 locale, it uses an 8-bit font for menus. Well, that's actually fine: no need for UTF-8 translations, fr_FR.UTF-8/app-defaults/* files can just #include "../../[EMAIL PROTECTED]/app-defaults/foo" :) > Since I currently work on a Motif application I would really like to > know more facts about translations of such (ancient?) applications. It is just based on the order of X resources discovery. And the default is to look for localized resources first. See recent thread on the xorg mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017717.html > PS: I will forward this request to the German team. Expect first > translations soon. Good :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
