[Qgis-developer] status of Chinese QGIS

[欧阳乐岩]

On 09/26/2012 05:14 PM, maning sambale wrote:
> Dear users and devs,
>
> Just sharing an experience of teaching a Chinese colleague in the use
> of QGIS.  Overall the experience was very good but much improvement is
> still needed to accommodate Chinese users.
>
> A few notes:
>   - Many parts of the GUI (menu names, icon labels and tool tips) do
> not have a Chinese translation.
>   - When creating a new vector layer, there are no option to select an
> encoding.  It defaults to UTF-8.  We were able to add new geometries
> but when adding attribute strings using Chinese characters, it doesn't
> recognize the entry.  Creating a cpg file doesn't help either. Perhaps
> related to ticket# 5255 [0]
>   - gdalbuildvrt doesn't recognize Chinese directory path ticket# 6412 [1]
>
> Apologies if I can't provide a detailed report on each item, I have
> difficulty debugging the "Chinese" machine. :) Finally, I appeal to
> Chinese users here to help in the GUI translation.
>
> Thanks! QGIS is always awesome!
>
> [0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5255
> [1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6412
>

I completely agree with the two first issues.

Unfortunately, the first issue should really be solved by a native 
speaker, so I can't help with that. Native speakers of Mandarin do not 
seem to be common on this list ... Also, the issue is larger than that: 
if the interface is translated, but not the documentation, there is no 
community, etc., a monolingual Chinese will have a lot of difficulties.

I think the second one is related to the issue 6327 I reported 
(http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6327). Can you try with the "Ignore 
shapefile encoding" option in QGis ? This seems to revert most of the 
corrupting data issues that appeared in 1.8 and the upgrade to GDAL.

Regards,

Leyan