<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jens Seidel</b> <<a href="mailto:jensseidel@users.sf.net">jensseidel@users.sf.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Tirumurti,<br><br>> of course it is not rendered correctly. the complex scripts need some extra<br>> settings to show right. the environment needs to be set. but dont worry, it<br><br>What kind of settings? Probably I have to install an optimized font,
<br>other issues?</blockquote><div><br>pango setting is the issue for tamil fonts to be rendered right. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> will show right in the computers of tamil users.<br><br>Ah, OK. So no need for me to set up anything!?</blockquote><div><br>once you fix the pango issue no problems (i hope) <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>About the error in the PO file you described in your second mail:<br><br>#: hex_puzzzle.cpp:1567<br>#, c-format<br>msgid "Complete 1 more level to unlock!"<br>msgid_plural "Complete %d more levels to unlock!"
<br>msgstr[0] "பூட்டை திறக்க இன்னும் 1 மட்டத்தை முடியுங்கள்!"<br>msgstr[1] "பூட்டை திறக்க இன்னும் %d மட்டங்களை முடியுங்கள்!"<br><br>The number of plural forms depend on the language. English and German
<br>uses 2, Russian 3 and Asian languages 1 if I remember correctly.<br><br>Example:<br> 1 game<br> 0,2,3,4,... games<br><br>You see the grammar ("s" plural suffix!) depends on the number.<br><br>Does your string msgstr[1] make sense if you replace %d by all numbers
<br>except 1?<br><br>In this case you have two plural forms and the header should be extented<br>by:<br><br>"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"<br><br>This means: There are 2 plural forms, the first one is used for %d==1
<br>the other for all other numbers.<br><br>If you are unsure please look at other PO files or explain all forms.</blockquote><div><br>what you say is correct.<br>there is one singular and one plural form only in tamil.<br>
it is so in other files<br>i inserted the line manually but it disappeared on opening with kababel! <br>perhaps i am not allowed to change the header.<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> * The Tamil font seems not to be available in bold. Don't know why.<br>> > Maybe it will work once I change my font settings/install other<br>> > fonts, ...<br>><br>> I would assume it should be possible to render it bold even without a
<br>><br>> > bold font, so it could be a pango or fontconfig problem.<br>><br>><br>> bold fonts do exist. as you say it may be resolved later. it looks fine as<br><br>Can you please mention such a font so that I can use it for testing?
</blockquote><div><br>what distroe are you using?<br>i use ubuntu and have rohit tamil as default font <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> it is. pango problem, it is.<br><br>Ah, OK. Nevertheless in this case I need to file a bug against Pango so<br>that it can be fixed ... I have to check it.<br><br>> keep me posted and i will update.<br><br>Will do so for new strings ...
<br><br>PS: I forwarded your mails to <a href="mailto:441040@bugs.debian.org">441040@bugs.debian.org</a> so that they will<br>be archived. I hope this is OK.</blockquote><div><br>perfect.<br>i have included a copy of this mail too to that address
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">PS2: Is it OK to not translate "complete" in the following?<br><br>msgid "Continue game %d (%d%% complete)"
<br>msgstr "விளையாட்டை தொடர் %d (%d%% complete)"</blockquote><div><br>completed!<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You should probably also translate<br># type: SH<br>#: debian/hex-a-hop.6:39<br>#, no-wrap<br>msgid "SEE ALSO"<br>msgstr "SEE ALSO"<br><br>Same for AUTHOR, DESCRIPTION, NAME, ... right?</blockquote><div>
<br>i dont know the tech reasons but when i started learning the ruls for translation i was told not to translate any string that appears in all caps<br>so i left them out.<br>if it is ok i can always translate them for you.
<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(Yes, I know, Tamil manpages are currently not supported by man, but the<br>
author works on UTF-8 support.)<br><br>> # type: Plain text<br>> #: debian/hex-a-hop.6:21<br>> msgid "hex-a-hop - puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles"<br>> msgstr "?????????????????? ??? ???????????? ?????????????????? ?????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????? ??????????????????????????????."
<br><br>Oops, this seems to be wrong. "man" expects a normal dash in this line (as<br>in English) (po4a will replace it by proper \-). Also hex-a-hop should<br>not be translated/transliterated as this stands for the command to start
<br>the game (at least here). The same is true for "$HOME/.hex-a-hop/",<br>that's a filename, translation of it is forbidden :-)<br><br>It should be:<br>hex-a-hop - <your translation of "puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles">
</blockquote><div><br> </div>written as wished.<br>regards<br>tv<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>BE HAPPY! LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY!