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

[Frederic Muller]

Dear Fazeena,

Could you describe what is not working? Saying "not working properly" 
doesn't help to address the issues, since we don't know what they are.

Thanks.

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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