Re: [bug-gtypist] Can't Navigate Between Excercises With Non-English Keyboard Layout

[Felix Natter]

Richard Edward Horner <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

hello Richard,

> I just started using GNU Typist to learn how to type in Russian
> because it supports creating my own lessons. I really like the program

Great!

> but there is one really annoying thing about it.
>
> Whenever I finish an exercise, it says:
>
> Press R to repeat, N for next exercise or E to exit
>
> Since I just typed the exercise in Russian, I have to switch my
> keyboard layout back to English and hit N and then the next exercise
> begins but I can't start typing until I switch my keyboard layout back
> to Russian.
>
>
> It would be nice if either I could just press the same locations as
> the English keys which would be these characters:
>
> R -> К
> N -> Т
> E -> У
>
> Or if the dialog asked for Russian keys for whatever words mean
> repeat, next or exit in Russian.

That's what we should go for.

> Sorry, I don't know what those might
> be as I just started learning Russian but since all the other
> instructions in the ru.typ file are in Russian, it seems odd that this
> part is in English.

The "problem" is that the program messages that are repeated in every
lesson (global to the program) are translated in another way: There are
annotations in the source code (_("foo")) which are processed by a program
called gettext.

The translation is done in the po/ru.po file in the source distribution.
The important messages look like this:

#: src/gtypist.c:1668
msgid " Press R to repeat, N for next exercise or E to exit "
msgstr ""
" Нажмите `П' для повторения, `С' для следующего упражнения, или `В' для "
"выхода"

#: src/gtypist.c:1694
msgid "R/N/E"
msgstr "П/С/В"

=> so you should be able to use П, С and В instead of R, N and E,
IF you configured your terminal correctly for the russian language.

So try this:

$ locale -a | grep -i ru
ru_RU.koi8r
ru_RU.utf8
russian
(you probably want to choose a UTF-8 locale)

and run:
  LC_ALL=ru_RU.utf8 gtypist


> Thank you for your work on this program and for reading. I figured it
> would be an easier change for someone already familiar with the
> program to make but please let me know if no one is interested in
> fixing this and I will attempt to patch it myself. I just have no
> prior experience programming to handle Russian input in C.

You don't have to know C to fix translations, but you have to be able to
build the package from source in order to activate the new translations.
You can also blindly edit the ru.po file and post it on this mailing
list (ru.po contains 14 untranslated messages).

Thanks for your interest in GTypist and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter