[g-a-devel]Gnopernicus Localization

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hi Draghi and all,

I've had a quick look and think about Gnopernicus localization, and I think 
we should have a preliminary discussion on this list to clarify the 
issues.  I'll start the discussion by outlining what I believe to be the 
issues and what I believe *may* be the correct solutions.  I should preface 
this by saying that my knowledge of the current localization mechanisms is 
very limitted!


1. The Gnopernicus UI for configuration is a standard GNOME UI written in 
glade XML.  It should be localized in the standard way (using 
gettext).  The user would presumably want the configuration dialogs and 
windows in Gnopernicus to be in the chosen (default) locale?

2. The messages spoken and Brailled by Gnopernicus may be in the same or 
different locale as its configuration dialogs (although I would think that 
having all messages/dialogs in the same locale would be the most common use 
case).  They should also, I think, be localized in the standard (gettext) 
way.  This raises issues about retrieving messages from two different 
locales within the same execution of a program.  Bill, I think you did some 
investigation into this.

3. The UI of the applications for which Gnopernicus is providing access may 
be in the same locale as Gnopernicus's UI, or a different one.  This means 
that Gnopernicus must be sensitive to the locale of accessible 
applications, and must control the speech/Braille output appropriately.  Is 
it possible to determine the locale of a running application?

4. The text/documents in applications for which Gnopernicus is providing 
access may be in the same locale as those applications, or in a different 
one.  (French text in an English Star Office).  This seems to be a similar 
issue to number 2, but worth mentioning separately since I think it may 
present other issues.  Since the ATK text interfaces don't provide any 
means to determine what locale text is in, is there any way to distinguish 
the locale of a document/text from the locale of its containing application?


This list of problems/discussion topics may be incomplete, so anyone who 
has more information should please add it to the discussion.

Regards,

Marc