Re: [Adonthell-devel] i18n improvements

[Kai Sterker]

On 13 Apr 2002 18:54:37 +0200 Alexandre Courbot wrote:

> Never mind! It's just me being stupid. See, I ran adonthell with -g to
> the wastesedge cvs directory. But I made the po structure in my copy
> in/usr/share/adonthell. Sorry! :p

That would explain your problem. Still it wouldn't work correctly unless
one of these variables was defined. As I said, I fixed that. Right now,
it will have a look at those variables when writing adonthellrc and from
then on use only the value specified in adonthellrc. That means, you can
pop up the console and type 'nls_set_language ("<new language>")' to
switch to a different language at runtime :).

 
> I thought 'C' was the 'default' language - that is, it talks in the
> language the program was programmed in.

Maybe I got that wrong. Doesn't matter as it's working as I wanted it to
work now :).


> Sure. Actually I only translated two sentences at first, but just for
> you I've finished demo_intro_1 and talan_start ;) Have fun! 

Thanks! Now I can work on my French :). C'est bon!


> I propose we encode in Latin-1 for
> this release, as we'll have true type support, but probably not
> Unicode in the Windows system. And no exotic languages are planned for
> 0.3, so...

Hm, msgfmt complained that latin-1 isn't very portable. I was using
ISO-8859-15 for my translations, and there was no warning. Or does
msgfmt perhaps complain if the .po file uses a encoding that differs
from the default encoding on my box (which is ISO-8859-15)?


> I guess the only way for Windows players to have a custom language
> will be to set it in the configuration file, as the environment
> variables are not set correctly, contrary to Linux distros which set
> them correctly at install and user login.

Yeah, but that's not a big problem. One day there'll be a gui frontend
to the engine settings, then everything will be much easier.

 
> ... on the other hand, there is A LOT of stuff to translate. Only
> Talan is 109 sentences already!

All in all there will be more than 1000, I believe. I should be able to
generate the ultimate .pot file today, then we'll see.

Kai