Re: Tamil translators please pay attention

[Ramanan Selvaratnam <rama uklinux net>]

Noted .

Thanks Noah, Dinesh and everyone else.

I will be pursuing with coordinating the translations happily from now on.

As there is a lot of development already done on the broken system and 
as many possible translators still use the system based on TSCII I 
intend to maintain a repository elsewhere until I can give support on 
using good fonts, where the problem seems to originate.
The need for translators is very important for us right now.

I will take care not to pollute the main GNOME tree.

All advice most welcome.

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

>Kaixo!
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>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:03:12AM +0800, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
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>>I have just (hopefully) fixed almost all of tamil translations which
>>was broken in the same way Noah discovered some days ago in gtk+. In
>>the process, I have to remove a few strings from ta.po in gconf-editor,
>>gnomemeeting and gimp-freetype, in order to successfully convert the
>>encoding of ta.po.
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>>Please tell me if I break any tamil translation files, so that I can
>>revert the change or fix it.
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>In fact, the tscii encoding, as almost all "quick and dirty 8bit" encodings,
>are based on windows-1252, not in iso-8859-1.
>A conversion to iso-8859-1 fails, due to some chars being in the
>range 0x80-0x9f which doesn't exist in iso-8859-1
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>so, it will work better with:
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>cat old.po | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252//IGNORE | iconv -f tscii -t utf-8 > new.po
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