Re: russian i18n

> I did have a read of the docs for id3lib, and it looks like we
> *may* be able to get it to give us a unicode string. Although
> I suspect it rather depends on how you tagged the files in the
> first place.
Yes, certainly. And I want to note autorecoding of mp3 tags is 
very important feature for the Russians. :( 
I think ~70-90% of mp3 files in Russia are tagged in CP1251 (It's 
obvious because of russian window$ ). And the rest are tagged in 
KOI8-R & UTF-8.  So It's a vital question. 
And I gave you an example -- rusxmms.sf.net -- this (and others) 
project was created to solve the problem in xmms & it works. The 
prepatched xmms is included in russian distros (ASPLinux & 
ALTLinux) . But for instance I have to patch xmms in my Mandrake 
manually because mdk-developers don't know about this problem :( 

I can't imagine is it too difficult to realize this feature. 
Nevertheless...
Do you see what I mean ? :/

> If you have any Ogg files, you will find they work with no
> problem whatsoever.
I know this fact. But 
/mnt/upload/music\> find . -iname '*.mp3' -print|wc -l
   2779
/mnt/upload/music\> find . -iname '*.ogg' -print|wc -l
     99

No comments. 

> That's not quite true. What you see is the name of the song up
> to the first character of invalid UTF-8. Which will be *any*
> Cyrillic.
hmm. :( 

> > 2/ After clicking in 'My Music'->About zinf    the incorrect
> > window opens.
>
> True. I think if you are translating the "About zinf" bit you
> should put a credit to yourself in the Russian version.
:)  There is only the button 'AUTHORS'  that leads to zinf site. 

> > 4/ How to mark the following string (and others like this)
> > ... OptionsPane(_("About"), " About "The_BRANDING, ABOUT,
> > pane);
>
> Good question. Will look into this. Ideally you'd like to be
> able to do _(" About "The_BRANDING), 
ok . I'll use this way (if it works :) 

> By the way, do you have a Russian name for Zinf? 
I think no. I've never heardthis word & I've never come across 
it. 
It's very interesting to know what does it mean  :) 

> > 5/  Is it correctly to translate 'Streaming' as ''Streaming
> > audio' and  'Streaming prefs' as 'Internet-radio settings' 
> > in russian?   I've made so.
>
> Sounds fair enough. I would probably try and use the same
> terminology each time though, so have "Streaming Audio" and
> "Streaming Audio settings"
ok. I'll correct this shortcoming.


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