[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Fwd: Re: tuxtype localization

[Frederic Muller]

Forwarding the response to the list. It was my bad for replying to the 
email author rather than the mailing list.

Fred

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] tuxtype localization
Date: 	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:22:59 +0530
From: 	Fazeena Jamaldeen <jffazeena at gmail.com>
To: 	Frederic Muller <fred at beijinglug.org>



Dear Fred,
   Thank you very much for your reply. It helped me a lot. I installed
the application but the Tamil is not working properly. Hoping to do a
good job as a part of a project for my degree.
Thank you very much.
Hoping to contact you more if I have any problems regarding this project.
Thank you.

Fazeena.


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Frederic Muller <fred at beijinglug.org
<mailto:fred at beijinglug.org>> wrote:

     Dear Fazeena,

     While the topic has been discussed a few times on this mailing list
     (the process is rather well documented), I will try to help you out.
     You asking whether TAMIL has been translated seems to tell you that
     you haven't even installed the application.

     Localization is in fact a difficult task and one should be very
     familiar with the application before attempting to translate it.

     So while Tamil has been added in the supported languages it seems
     the translation is not complete.

     In order to translate tuxtyping, you need to:
     1. Download a copy of the source code from the git repository
     2. Create/look for a new folder into data/themes called 'tamil'
     3. Create an images folder into data/themes/tamil
     4. Copy keyboard.lst, settings.txt from the data folder into
     data/themes/tamil (if the language exists, this is not needed)
     5. Copy the scripts and words folders and their content from the
     data folder into data/themes/tamil (be careful not to erase existing
     work)
     6. You can make the map by adding a file called map.png into the
     themes/tamil/images folder. Map should be transparent png format of
     300 pixels wide x 200 pixels high. Use the file data/images/word.png
     as a starting guide.
     7. you will find the typing lessons in the data/themes/tamil/scripts
     folder. You need to translate file names and content (without
     removing the markup)
     8. you can change the words lists (and screen translation) in
     subfolder data/themes/tamil/words. Renaming the first line will
     change what is selectable inside tuxtyping, changing the words
     will... change the words into your own language (if it makes sense
     for you).
     9. Last (but not least) edit the file data/themes/tamil/settings.txt
     and enter your language locale. It should be something like:
     theme_locale_name=en_US.UTF-8 - but with the locale value for tamil
     (in your case this should already be done and correct)
     10. Some might need to change keyboard.lst but again it should
     already be done for tamil.

     Hope that helps.

     Let us know if you have any other question.

     Thanks.

     Fred


     On 12/04/2010 11:19 PM, Fazeena Jamaldeen wrote:

         Sir/Madam,
              I am a university student from SriLanka and I am willing to
         know
         about your Tuxtype localization project. It would be a great
         pleasure if
         i get a chance to participate in your localization project. I
         would like
         to know whether the game is already localized to Tamil. If not,
         it would
         be a great pleasure to join your development team in order to
         localize
         the project to Tamil. I am expecting your reply and the
         procedures to
         start the work. Expecting your reply...

         Yours,
         Sincerely,
         Fazeena.



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