[GRASS-dev] winGRASS: enabling non-english languages?

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> we have tried the latest winGRASS from today which has nls enabled
>> according to Helmut. The .mo files are present in the install directory.
>>
>> The computer (XP) is runnig in Japanese locale but still the English

This Windows-XP machine is all-Japanese.

>> screen comes up. If I do the same on Linux, I get the Japanese
>> startup screen.
>>
>> How to debug this problem? It would be essential IMHO to get nls
>> working (and I feel that there is a rather trivial obstacle in the way).
>
> Are LANG or LC_MESSAGES set?

We verified in the GRASS-CMD line: they are not set.
So that will be the issue.

> If I set LANG=ja, precisely one of the menu entries gets
> translated: Help (ヘルプ).

Here it fails because GRASS is installed in "Program Files".
g.gui wxpython
bails out with a related error.

Of course I had to set GRASS_PYTHON=python manually before but
due to the space problem it doesn't come up.
At least we seem to be close.

> FWIW, I've verified that this is actually getting translated by the
> _() in menudata.py (I thought that the "help" menu might be a special
> case hard-wired into wxWidgets).

Yes, Quit and Help refuse to be translated. We''ll see later.

> If I use e.g. LANG=fr or LANG=de, I see far more translated entries.
> Okay, those files are larger, but grasswxpy_ja.po still has 471
> translations. However: grasswxpy_ja.po has 445 occurrences of "fuzzy",
> and ja/LC_MESSAGES/grasswxpy.mo is tiny (4608 bytes, versus 40617
> bytes for fr).

I just checked in a new transfer of translated messages for JA.
They are currently under review at Osaka City University to get
rid of fuzzy and to fix the wrong translations.

> Are "fuzzy" translations ignored when generating the .mo file?

Yes.

Markus