Re: German translation

Hi!

Sorry, I found that the translation with german specific characters is
not 100 percent correct.

Most of the messages are correct but if I use a german specific
character in the headlines (NOT categories) of the configuration pages
(i.e. tab completion) the same problem appears. And here also LC_CTYPE
changes doesn't work.

All the other display of messages or filenames with these characters
seems to be correct with the patch!

Any ideas?

Happy weekend and greetings from germany

Ronny

Marcus von Appen schrieb: 
On, Thu Jan 26, 2006, Ronny Steiner wrote:

Hi!

Thank you for your quick reply!
I checked all you said --> o.k.
..searched the internet a while and found my problem:

I don't know why but if I change LC_CTYPE from de_DE to de_DE.UTF-8 it works fine!

Sounds like emelfm does not set the locale here correctly in my opinion.
I did not recheck it in detail for now, but usually something like 

     setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
     bindtextdomain (PACKAGENAME, LOCALEDIR);
     textdomain (PACKAGENAME);
     bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8");

does the right thing (if the translations are in UTF-8). If I see that
correctly in e2_main.c, the last call for setting the encoding of the
translations does not exist. 

Assumption:
Because of this your translations are converted using a
latin-1/15 -> utf-8 conversion, which breaks them (as they are already in
utf-8, but your encoding suffix in the LC_* is not set).

If I am right with that (I am no gettext guru), it would make more sense
to fix it within the program (trying to enforce UTF-8, if not set in the
locale) rather than in your translations (Tom, your opinion here? :-).

So I go on the german translation of emelFM2 0.1.5

Maybe anyone can tell me why I have to change LC_CTYPE. I cant understand that because all the other linux-programs with german local file don't need that?

See above. I attached a minor patch for the e2_main.c, which you might
give a try to see, if it works for you afterwards. You can easily apply
it by changing in the (freshly extracted) sources directory and running 

   patch < path/to/locale.diff

Regards
Marcus


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--- src/e2_main.c.orig Thu Jan 26 23:05:49 2006
+++ src/e2_main.c Thu Jan 26 23:06:28 2006
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@
printd (DEBUG, "setting locale dir to '%s'", LOCALE_DIR);
bindtextdomain (BINNAME, LOCALE_DIR);
textdomain (BINNAME);
+ bind_textdomain_codeset (BINNAME, "UTF-8");
#endif
} 




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