[gcompris-devel] Hi (problems with gcompris internationalization and lt.po)

[Bruno Coudoin]

> 
> 3. For making the game really internationalized, I have to change the last
> key '-u' to '-p' in 'aclocal.m4' and/or 'configure' files string
> $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< 
>  After doing it the strings won't be converted to UTF8 and the method I've
> suggested in my earlier letter will work properly - Gcompris will correctly
> display accented  (international) characters just after changing two last *
> with correct encoding when the font is being loaded (function gdk_font_load)
> ex. in ...//src/boards/menu.c lines 407, 408, 409:
> gdk_font = gdk_font_load ("-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*");
> must be
> gdk_font = gdk_font_load ("-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-*-*-*-13")
> or gdk_font = gdk_font_load
> ("-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13")
> if I want Gcompris correctly display symbols in lithuanian language
> (and gdk_font = gdk_font_load
> ("-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-*-*-koi8-r") if I want in russian 
> 
Mantas, this is very confusing to me. I can't hardcode specific fonts
depending on the language.
For the aclocal change, I don't like it because you tell intltool not to
use utf8 but gcompris expect it from the xml files.
Also is you do that, xml.in files header will have to be changes to tell
it's not utf-8 but since one .xml file handle all locales translations,
you cannot use a specific one.

We need to take care of what we change here. Several stuff are
dependant. 
It is important to fix the issue properly so that it works in any case.
My bet is still that we should move toward using UTF since it becomming
more and more widely used.

Bruno.

> 
> Mantas Kriauèiûnas <monte at mail.lt>
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