RE: Internationalization of 4.1.2-patch1 (was RE: a question about "APPLY-4.1.2-patch1.bat")

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jörg Schmidt [mailto:joe...@j-m-schmidt.de]
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 15:32
> To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org
> Subject: Re: Internationalization of 4.1.2-patch1 (was RE: a question
> about "APPLY-4.1.2-patch1.bat")
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org]
> 
> > All of the information on the release of 4.1.2-patch1,
> > including readmes and messages from the patch install and
> > uninstall scripts, is in English.  See
> > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-patch
> > 1/hotfix.html> and the Readme files.  Also, the Windows
> > package contains install and uninstall scripts that provide
> > messages in English.
> >
> > It would be useful for there to be internationalization of
> > the texts and messages, especially for the Windows version.
> >
> > If the proportion of languages chosen for downloads is an
> > useful guide,
> >
> >     English language is selected for over 40% of downloads.
> >
> > If French, German, Italian, and Spanish were also supported,
> > then a total of 75% of all downloads would be covered.
> >
> > To reach 90%, add Japanese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, and
> > Portuguese (BR).
> >
> > Supplementing the 4.1.2-patch1 files in this manner is
> > possible, if committers are willing to provide translations.
> > To submit a translation for the Windows case, we need a
> > translation of the README and of the text messages presented
> > by the APPLY and REVERT scripts in the Zip for Windows.
> > These must be supplied by an OpenOffice committer who can
> > provide a PGP signature on their submission, or they must be
> > submitted to the project and a committer familiar with the
> > language accepts them.
> >
> >  - Dennis
> >
> > PS: This does not impact the placing of the current packages
> > into general distribution.  Additional languages can be
> > provided in supplemental distributions.
> >
> > PPS: This is also an area of "Help Wanted" that would be
> > valuable in support of the project.
> 
> I have created a wiki page to coordinate the translations:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6586657
> 6
> 
> I myself will create the German translation and publish the progress of
> work here:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/german+translation
[orcmid] 

Thanks for doing this.  Can you also use a bugzilla issue for submission of the 
text files so they can be verified and used to build additional packages?  

Oh, and to avoid putting .bat files as bugzilla attachments, just add .txt to 
the names.  E.g.,

    APPLY-4.2.1-patch1-de.bat.txt

Finally, produce your files in UTF-8, not ISO 8859-1 or any other single-byte 
encoding.

There is a way to change the code page to UTF8 inside a batch script and it 
works so long as cmd.exe is using a font that has the characters.

See the UTF8Check.bat[.txt] file that I have attached.

 - Dennis
> 
> 
> greetings,
> Jörg
> 
> 
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@echo off
rem UTF8Check.bat 0.0.0               UTF-8                        2016-08-21
rem -----1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---------7-------*

rem ENSURE UTF-8 CHARACTER HANDLING 
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:." %%X in ('CHCP') DO SET AOOCP=%%X
rem    retaining the current code page ID for restoration later
CHCP 65001>NUL
rem    specifying UTF-8 for standard display

rem ANNOUNCE THIS SCRIPT
TITLE COMMAND-LINE CONSOLE UTF8 CHECK
COLOR 71
rem   Soft white background with blue text
CLS
ECHO:
ECHO * 0.0.0 UTF8 CONSOLE DISPLAY CHECKING
ECHO:        A variety of Unicode character codes are used to display
ECHO:        the text, below.  For all of the characters to be presented
ECHO:        properly, the font used by the Windows command-line console
ECHO:        utility must provide for them.
ECHO:
ECHO:        Usually, characters used in your own language will appear
ECHO:        correctly.  Some others might not.
ECHO:
ECHO:        ASCII     abcde xyz   (lower-case Roman characters)
ECHO:        German    äöü ÄÖÜ ß   (accented and special characters)
ECHO:        Polish    ąęźżńł      (accented and special characters)
ECHO:        Russian   абвгдеж эюя (cyrillic characters)
ECHO:        CJK       你好         (Chinese-Japanese-Korean characters)
ECHO:
ECHO:        

rem RESTORE USER'S CODE PAGE
CHCP %AOOCP% >NUL
SET AOOCP=
PAUSE


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