On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Alissa Sabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> to compile a >> series of tests to check if the viewer can handle characters used in >> different languages. > > This phrase attracted me, but, > >> Noelle Linden asked volunteers to have a look at CT-81 >> ( https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CT-81 ) in order to compile a > > I looked at it, but I don't speak French. > >> We're now trying to decide on TEST STRINGS for the viewer i18n. In that >> context, the question arrised that if one >> greek/chinese/japanese/russian/... character is working in the viewer, >> it would be an indication if ALL characters of that language would be >> working. It was speculative and we decided to ask the >> specialists/coders... So that is you guys (^_^) >> Any ideas? Should we test whole alphabets in different languages or are >> one to three characters enough to indicate that the language is working >> as it should? > > I have some ideas. I have my own test vector for this area. However, > it primarily targets at my own goal of supporting _more_ languages > than the current viewer does. So, most of my data doesn't work at all > under the LL viewer. I don't think such set is appropriate for Q/A > people...
I just published maint-l10n-1 with Ukrainian, Polish and Russian community contributions added. Hopefully more follow in the near future. > A part of my test data is available in-world at > http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/42/22/23 as a set of > notecards. Those who are interested in the Zai's original message > will find these notecards interesting. Awesome! Actually, a notecard with the full expected character set for each language sounds perfect for working out font issues, at least. That's also going to let people A/B issues in the currently active viewer and development viewers. > Please note when you view it that: > > - The result of viewing those notecards largely depends on the OS > environment. For example, assuming you run US English version of > Windows XP, the test results differ greately by a checkbox > hidden deep inside of the Windows Control Panel. (Control Panel > > Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options > Regional and Language > Options > Languages > Supplemental Language Support > Install files > for East Asian Languges). > > # I'm a Japanese speaker living in Japan, and am using Japanese > version of Windows. In Japanese version of Windows this checkbox > is turned on by default, and is unable to be turned off through > usual operations. > > - Only the Korean text appears right in the current viewer (under > Windows XP with the above checkbox on. If the above checkbox is > off, Korean notecard doesn't appear right.) > > - Turkish, Hungarian, and Czech text appears readable, but some > characters are shown strangely; it is primarily because the current > viewer's character-by-character font selection mechanism from > multiple fallback fonts works badly. > > - Viewing Japanese and Chinese notecards shows all characters there, > but the paragraphs are folded into lines at wrong positions, causing > unconfortable texts. (In Chinese notecard, some Hanzi are shown > using Japanese font, causing some strange appearance.) > > - Russian text appears fine if the above Windows checkbox (East Asian > language) is turned *OFF* and you have Microsoft Office installed > with full install (i.e., you have "Arial Unicode MS" in your Font > folder.) If you turned on the checkbox, each Russian letter appears > too wide. If you turned off the checkbox, but you don't have > Microsoft Office, Russian letters doesn't appear on the screen (even > if you have an ordinary Russian font.) > > - Hindi, Hebrew, and Arabic sample text doesn't work with the current > viewer, regardless of the Windows settings. Does anyone know if there's a standard way for detecting these dependencies and suggesting remedies under Windows? Surely this has to be a pretty common problem. With Mac so far it seems that the correct characters are shown so long as the proper system language pack is installed, and newer versions of OS X may even include all languages in a default installation. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
