[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux type Japanese translation

[David Bruce]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Chris Harrington
<chris.harrington.jp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the ja.po file, which is normally the
> translation file for Japanese, is already occupied by the "Jamaican"
> translation

If there isn't an official Jamaican locale, we will think of some
other placeholder that doesn't conflict with Japanese.

> I know, Japanese may be impractical to type in some of the game
> sequences (Japanese input is not a hit a key one step process, but
> uses an input method such as SCIM or IBUS).

I definitely want tuxtype to properly support Asian languages, so we
have started to adapt Tux Paint's input methods code to convert
multiple keypresses into a single Unicode character.  The code is in
tuxtype, but it isn't yet actually being used by the program.

It would be nice if SDL or some other readily-available lib handled
this in a standardized way.

There certainly are plenty of potential tuxtype users in Japan, China,
Korea, and other Asian countries that we don't currently support, so I
think this is important.

David Bruce