Clytie Siddall wrote: > Meanwhile, is there anyway a Windows user can make use of our > Vietnamese Pidgin translation? Can s/he compile it separately, or > install the program manually, in some way? I have the translation file > up on FTP, so users can access it. A viable workaround would be > welcomed by our users. The user could set the PIDGINLANG environment variable to get Pidgin in Vietnamese.
>From FAQ (http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#HowdoesPidginforWindowsdeterminewhichlanguagetouse): How does Pidgin for Windows determine which language to use? ¶ For the user who installed Pidgin, the language selected during installation will be the default. This can be overridden by setting the PIDGINLANG environment variable (for example, PIDGINLANG=de). If neither of these are specified, it will fall back to the default Windows user locale setting. But in general setting an environment variable is not very user friendly for an GUI program. Why we do not offer a Language menu for Pidgin on Windows? In Skype for instance there is a menu item for the language selection. If it's not possible to switch the language at runtime we could make a hint, that the new language will be active after restarting Pidgin. The current method of selecting the Pidgin language on installation time has some drawbacks, e.g.: * The user may not find his language in the Windows installer. Currently I see 72 *.po files in pidgin-mtn/po/ but only 37 *.nsh files in pidgin-mtn/pidgin/win32/nsis/translations/. * Not every user selects his language carefully during setup. Some will probably run the setup in English but want to use the own language later. * The second method of setting the PIDGINLANG variable is not user-friendly. Greetings, Björn _______________________________________________ Translators mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators
