Hindi support in GRASS 6.1 - was Re: [GRASS5] Fwd: Indic support in GRASS GIS with Indix2

[Markus Neteler]

Hi again,

an update for support of Indian languages:

- we now have messages files in Hindi available (still to be
  translated)
- we can out-of-the-box generate Hindi (or other) scripts
  in the GRASS monitor using TTF fonts, see screenshot at
  http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php
  -> example for Hindi
     http://grass.itc.it/images/grass61_hindi_hi.jpg

Note that this is a proof of concept example in Spearfish,
done with:

#extraction of phrase in Hindi:
head -37 locale/po/grassmods_hi.po | tail -1 > /tmp/hindi
echo "599505|4921010|`cat /tmp/hindi | cut -d'"' -f2 `" | v.in.ascii out=hindi

d.rast elevation.dem
v.db.select hindi
d.vect hindi icon=basic/circle
d.font.freetype font=/usr/share/fonts/hi/lohit_hi.ttf
d.vect hindi disp=attr attr=str_1 lsize=40 lcol=blue

Works :-)

Cheers

 Markus

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:38:44PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 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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