FW: Re: Hebrew translation of wine

[Scott Ritchie]

Of course, translations are always welcome.  The trick is, I really have
no idea how Rosetta works or which parts belong in Ubuntu Rosetta and
which parts belong in upstream Wine.

Therefore I'm forwarding your message to wine-devel, hopefully someone
there can enlighten me.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 18:53 +0200, Amichai Teumim wrote:
> Hi Scott
>
> I would like to translate Wine to Hebrew for Ubuntu using Rosetta.
>
> Would you approve of this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Amichai

[Frank Richter]

On 20.11.2006 22:01, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Of course, translations are always welcome.  The trick is, I really have
> no idea how Rosetta works or which parts belong in Ubuntu Rosetta and
> which parts belong in upstream Wine.
>
> Therefore I'm forwarding your message to wine-devel, hopefully someone
> there can enlighten me.

https://launchpad.net/rosetta/+about says "Rosetta can let people
translate any open-source software that uses the GNU gettext system for
internationalization." - this means it's not suitable for use with Wine.

-f.r.

[Scott Ritchie]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 00:27 +0100, Frank Richter wrote:
> On 20.11.2006 22:01, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Of course, translations are always welcome.  The trick is, I really
> > have
> > no idea how Rosetta works or which parts belong in Ubuntu Rosetta
> > and
> > which parts belong in upstream Wine.
> >
> > Therefore I'm forwarding your message to wine-devel, hopefully
> > someone
> > there can enlighten me.
>
> https://launchpad.net/rosetta/+about says "Rosetta can let people
> translate any open-source software that uses the GNU gettext system
> for
> internationalization." - this means it's not suitable for use with
> Wine.
>
> -f.r.

Hmm, how DO we translate Wine, then?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Scott Ritchie" <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
> > https://launchpad.net/rosetta/+about says "Rosetta can let people
> > translate any open-source software that uses the GNU gettext system
> > for
> > internationalization." - this means it's not suitable for use with
> > Wine.
> >
> > -f.r.
>
> Hmm, how DO we translate Wine, then?

Using your favourite text editor.

-- 
Dmitry.

[Mikołaj Zalewski]

> Hmm, how DO we translate Wine, then?

By translating the Windows resource files (*.rc). Usually it's enough 
to translate the strings however sometimes the dialogs needs to be 
enlarged if the translated string is much longer than the original. 
There is also an issue that the resources files are encoded using the 
Windows charset which is often different from the Unix charset. Some 
editors allows to choose the charset, even if they don't the files can 
be converted using `iconv` or edited in the Notepad shipped with wine.
  However I don't know if wine supports right-to-left scripts and if 
mirroring of the UI is done automatically or requires modifications of 
the dialog templates in the rc files. Also AFAIK wine doesn't ship 
Hebrew fonts so copying the fonts from Windows is required as a first step.

Mikolaj Zalewski