[Qgis-developer] status of Chinese QGIS

[maning sambale]

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
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cheers,
maning
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