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

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> Here it fails because GRASS is installed in "Program Files".
>> g.gui wxpython
>> bails out with a related error.
>
> What's the error?

It is:

GRASS 6.4.0svn (demolocation)> g.gui wxpython
 wxgui: can't open file 'C:/Program': [Errno 2] No such file or directory


> We might need to change G_spawn() to quote arguments. The MSDN
> documentation for the _spawn* functions suggests that it simply
> concatenates the arguments with spaces in between, and that the caller
> must perform quoting.
>
>        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20y988d2%28VS.80%29.aspx
>
> I've dealt with the issue in 7.0 by using G_spawn_ex() instead, and
> implementing that using CreateProcess() (so redirection works on
> Windows). Eventually, G_spawn_ex() will be renamed to G_spawn().
>
> Even if we continue to use _spawn*, the quoting code can be taken from
> 7.0; see escaped() in lib/gis/spawn.c. The code is actually quite
> tricky, due to the bizarre quoting rules:
>
>        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17w5ykft.aspx

Would it be possible for you to suggest a patch?

>> 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.
>
> If the problem is with GISBASE, you could try manually changing it to
> use "progra~1" in place of "Program Files" (more generally, "dir /x"
> lists the short names if you need them for other cases).

OK, we'll try, thanks.

>> > Are "fuzzy" translations ignored when generating the .mo file?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Ah; that would explain why there are hardly any Japanese
> translations; nearly all of them are "fuzzy".

Yes, being worked on right now.

Markus