[jsword-devel] Problems getting started / Translation of UI

[DM Smith]

Benny,
	I'm sorry I didn't apply your patch right away. I typically try to  
get on it as soon as possible. I had a few problems applying the  
patch. I saw that there were some question marks rather than  
characters with diacritics. I took my best guess as to what the  
characters should have been (I studied a little bit of German in  
college, and that was almost 30 years ago. So please verify my work).  
Also, the property files can be ascii only with unicode characters  
being escaped. I did this by opening each file with the JInto Eclipse  
plugin and saving it with that.

I think I fixed the problem of being unable to switch to English. The  
problem was that I did not set the default locale if the user choose  
English. I'm not happy with how I did it as we have about 30  
translations of Bible book names and this change hides all of them.

Did you ever figure out the font problem? I have never seen that  
problem. (Has anyone else seen it?)

Many, many thanks for your effort. It is greatly appreciated.

We serve better when we serve Christ together,
	DM


On Sep 22, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Benny Wasty wrote:

> Hi,
> this is my first mail to the list, so a short introduction: I'm from  
> Germany and I'm currently studying Software Engineering. I know the  
> Sword Project for quite some time and have also followed the mailing  
> lists for a few months. Now I've found the time to really get  
> involved and start programming etc.
>
> The first problem I have is a warning that shows up (when I compile  
> and run BibleDesktop in eclipse):
> -----
> 21.09.2007 00:43:57 org.crosswire.common.swing.FontStore load
> WARNUNG: Unable to load the font store: file:/C:/Dokumente%20und 
> %20Einstellungen/Benny%20Wasty/.jsword%5CBookFonts.properties
> -----
> The result is that the font of the bible text is different  
> (something with serifs, and smaller, too small) compared to my  
> installed version (1.07). Anyone knows what could be the reason?
>
> I started improving the German translation of the UI because it's  
> quite bad and incomplete. The attached patch contains the changes  
> (only .properties-files). It's not perfect and also not totally  
> complete, but */much /*better than the current translation...
>
> The language-property-files are a bit problematic in my opinion.  
> Weren't too easy to find in the first place, there are many and  
> they're spread among quite a few directories. Would be really  
> helpful to keep the translations in one place, maybe even in one  
> file. Adding new languages would also be easier then.
>
> And there's a bug with the selection of the translation:
> I always see the German version, no matter if German or English is  
> selected in the options menu. Switching to Turkish or Persian is  
> possible though. I looked into the code and debugged a little, but  
> couldn't find anything yet. Maybe it has something do to with my  
> operating system's language being German...
>
> Enough for the first mail...
>
> Benny Wasty
>
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