Re: [Zinf-users] russian i18n

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 03:46, Roman Shiryaev wrote:
> sorry, I was delayed with the reply.
> 
> > > do (just grab po file from cvs or anything else ? )
> >
> > Initially you should just grab the po file 
> i've just taken zinf.pot through the 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/zinf/zinf/po/
> 
> I expect that there won't be too much changes in the future 
> release of zinf :) 

I would hope that we could reduce the size of the message catalog
to a minimum.


> > and submit a 
> > translation. 
> to submit== to give it you ? Is that so ?

Yes,, I can check it in.  However, I do not have much
experience with international packages .. so testing will
be left to others.


> > If you are also a programmer, you could try to 
> > consolidate the strings and decide which are user oriented
> > string vs.  debug/error strings which should probably stay in
> > English.
> I'm a physical student, a future computer engineer & a programmer 
> a little. So I have a good understanding  of what you mean. I'll 
> try to sort out the strings.
> But i see some strings are missing (for example, tips in main 
> window). How to regenerate the zinf.po file ? (what target in 
> Makefile from po directory ? ) 

I think it's make update-po in the po directory..
Of course the string must be marked with _("a string")
for this to work.   Andreas can you suggest something here.

> > Let me know which of these you can do.  Since this is the
> > first translation it will probably take a while to get the
> > kinks out.
> Yea. I've started translating using KBabel.
> I think it's better to use UTF-8 charset for ru zinf.po ? Ok ?

Yes please, we've been moving to gtk2 recently and it looks
really nice.


> And about some problems with russian 
> [14:35][rmn@:~]\> rpm -q zinf
> zinf-2.2.4-1rmn
> I'm using mandrake 9.1
> 
> 1st/ There is always wrong font in any russian track name in the 
> main window
> 2nd/ In 'my music' window russian name of current track  crashes 
> after *bolding* by double click (==  begin playing). See 
> screenshot http://rmn-sh.nm.ru/ruzinf.png

I've only seen one screen shot with zinf using UTF-8 properly.
Maybe robert hart [email protected] can help with this.

> And the last: there was thread about zinf-playlist improvment. To 
> my mind, it had to be something like xmms|winamp normal-visible  
> playlist. 'My music' is very nice, but, IMHO, it's very unusual 
> for most of newbies.  
Hmm.. not sure what you are referring to here.

We've added directory browsing and adding slew of new features in the 
next generation browser coming soon (musicbrowsermm).


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