[GRASS5] Fwd: Indic support in GRASS GIS with Indix2

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

I have added Hindi support to GRASS by adding two .po files.
After installing
 kde-i18n-hi-3.4.2-10mdk
 locales-hi-2.3.5-1mdk
on my Mandriva box, I can even see the characters. With
d.font.freetype it should be possible to print them on the monitor
such as for Japanese and Chinese. Screenshots asap...

I fetched the KDE Hindi file and autotranslated the GRASS
messages, some hundred fuzzy translations resulted. Since
my Hindi is a bit rusty, I would leave the verification to
native speakers.

You can grab the wto hindi files from here

http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php
 -> Download current .po files from CVS
    -> grasslibs_hi.po
    -> grassmods_hi.po

Please send updates to these files regularly, in order to
stay in sync.

If needed, I can add other languages are well.

Cheers

 Markus

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:43:53AM +0100, Swapnil Hajare wrote:
> hi,
>  greetings.
>   not sure if the new GTK gui will solve our problem. Does the new GUI means
> GRASS monitors will use pango for rendering? I guess they will use the same
> monitor. And by the time they come up with new GUI, should we wait for them
> to finish and then start our localised GIS work ? My feeling is this should
> be seen as a patch for indic support (similar to d.text.freetype used for
> CJK). correct me if I am wrong.
>   I am also not sure  how many indic scripts are supported well by Pango/QT
> and what is the quality of rendering for all these scripts. If this solution
> can provide a better rendering solution, it has every right to be accepted
> as a good alternative to Pango/Qt.
> 
> bye
> 
> On 12/19/05, Sajith VK <sajithvk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Sorry for a much belated response.
> > Indian Language support for GRASS (For GUI and
> > in the map lables) will be highly benificiary.
> >
> > A discussion on a better GUI for GRASS is already
> > going on. I think it may end up with using GTK or
> > QT as toolkit. Both GTK and QT has indian language
> > support.
> > So this work may become irrelevent, according to the
> > future plans of the GUI team. So we may need to switch
> > to pango/Qt
> >
> > On 12/8/05, Swapnil Hajare <dreamil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > HI all,
> > >    my first post. I hope I am posting this is right list.
> > >    this is for your comments. If it sounds ok, can some 2-3MB code of
> > Indix2
> > > (indic Shaping Engine) be included in grass code to claim something like
> > > "GRASS GIS supports 11 Indian Scripts" ?
> > >
> > --
> > Change the rules, or the rules will change you
> >      ---------Kumaranasan
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Swapnil Hajare

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