Re: [Adonthell-general] Dialog engine and Fame (Was: Re: New map engine implementation started! :))

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Small question - I don't know much abot i18n and haven't got a clue what
.mo files are - but will all this stuff support foreign character sets?
I mean, will our text be in unicode format so someone can make a
japanese version if they want or what?
I just want to know because I was wondering what implications this has
for our fonts....

        -James

Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> 
> > Yep, it works indeed :)
> >
> > One problem I encountered though. It seems to compute the default locale
> > directory from the place python itself is installed. I have it in
> > /usr/local, so it looks for the locales in /usr/local/share/locale, and
> > thus doesn't find the gimp locale.
> 
> Right, but you can pass an optionnal parameter to gettext.Catalog,
> telling it the base directory of your .mo files. have a look at
> gettext.py.
> 
> > But that aside, it seems to be pretty easy. I wanted to move the text out
> > of the python scripts anyway, and instead of keeping it inside a file of
> > our own, we can as well keep it in a GNU .mo file.
> 
> Fine! I don't know though, whether you can do without text at all in
> Python - but this will certainly make things clearer.
> 
> > So yeah, I'll start improving on dlgedit and will add that i18n stuff in
> > the process. Sounds good?
> 
> Extremly! :) But I don't know whether it should be dlgedit's job to
> provide an interface for translations. I mean, translating means writing
> .po files, as gettext finds a translation from the original English
> text. There are also good .po files editors existing, like for instance
> kbabel (and Emacs! and Emacs! :))
> 
> Alex.

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