Re: [Texmacs-dev] Russian language support

[Miguel de Benito Delgado]

Hi,

  as far as I can tell, the reason is that upcase_first() is not working 
because it is being called with a cork string inside 
dictionary_rep::translate(). Some time ago, the utf8 strings from the 
dictionary where being (wrongly) passed around internally, causing problems in 
other places. Now dictionary_rep::load() calls utf8_to_cork() on russian as 
well as some other languages, thus causing upcase_first to stop working.

  The fix is either not to call utf8_to_cork for russian (which would be wrong 
because everywhere the assumption is made or should be that the internal 
encoding is cork), or to fix upcase_first() to require a parameter with the 
encoding (which IMHO it should).

  A related issue is that I dislike the way these automatic manipulations are 
done with the translations: sometimes they are ok, sometimes they are not: the 
default up-casing will be wrong in some cases, so we shouldn't rely on it. At 
any rate they impose a rigid mechanism. I think it'd be best to translate 
strings exactly to what it's required and not to rely on automagic, i.e. there 
should be two translation strings, one for "file", another for "File". Besides, 
I doubt that "file" is (legitimately) used anywhere: the trick with splitting 
strings and translating their parts should be deprecated for sentences like "3 
files left". In these situations, the strings in the code should look like "%1 
files left" and the translated strings like "%1 Dateien verbleibend" or 
whatever.

Best,
--
Miguel de Benito.

On 23/03/2013, at 11:15, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

> Hello *,
> 
> After installing 1.0.7.18, I've noticed that all Russian-language menu items 
> are not capitalized. In English, they start from capital letters; I think 
> that in earlier versions this was also the case for Russian. What's the 
> reason of this change?
> 
> Andrey
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