[poedit-users] How to change font in poeditor

[prabu anand]

Hi slavik,

I tried to use poedit on linux and it works fine for
my language, Tamil. Thanks you very much. The main
advantage that i see for poedit is its win32 port.

However i've problem in using poedit on win32 for my
language. Only Tamil fonts will display tamil
language. In poedit i don't see any option to change
the font used. Where do i change the font?

Also i want to localise poedit to my language Tamil.
How do i go about this. Can you send me the *.pot file
for poeditor for me.

A commonly used tamil font is
here..http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tscii/files/Avarangal/tscava.ttf
In windows we normally use keyman based utility for
keying in our language. The utlity is here..
http://www.tamil.net/newtamil/software/eKalappai.exe
This also comes with the above font.

For testing tamil language choose any file from this
page..http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/ta.php3 or in
the KDE page, linked from there...

Cheers.,
Prabu


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[Vaclav Slavik]

Hi,
[ you don't have to CC me, I read my own users list ;) ]

Post by prabu anand
However i've problem in using poedit on win32 for my
language. Only Tamil fonts will display tamil
language. In poedit i don't see any option to change
the font used. Where do i change the font?

Nowhere (not yet, anyway) -- poEdit uses system default font, i.e. the
one used by Windows for common GUI elements (menus, dialogs, ...) in
all apps.

Post by prabu anand
Also i want to localise poedit to my language Tamil.
How do i go about this. Can you send me the *.pot file
for poeditor for me.

You can find them either in source code tarballs at sourceforge.net or
in CVS (you can use the WWW interface, see my other message to
poedit-users).

Regards,
Vaclav

[prabu anand]

Hi,

Post by Vaclav Slavik
Hi,
[ you don't have to CC me, I read my own users list
;) ]

Thanks. I'll avoid this from now on.

Post by Vaclav Slavik
Nowhere (not yet, anyway) -- poEdit uses system
default font, i.e. the
one used by Windows for common GUI elements (menus,
dialogs, ...) in
all apps.

I really want to recommened to a lot of users for
tamil translation, however win32 version is unusable.
In linux this works great because my default font is
tamil font.
Will this "change font " be added in a future version.
I think this will enable many languages like ours
which does not have full support in Windows..

Post by Vaclav Slavik

Post by prabu anand
Also i want to localise poedit to my language

Tamil.

see my other

Post by Vaclav Slavik
message to
poedit-users).

Attached is the translated po file for my language
tamil(ta). I've done this using poedit. Pls. commit
this to cvs...

I've some problems ... i copy the mo file generated at
the end to /usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/poedit.mo,
when i start poedit, i'm getting segmentation fault.
Any idea why this is happening. my poedit version is
poedit-semistatic-1.1.10-1mdk

Thanks for a real nice cross-platform tool.
Cheers.,
Prabu

Post by Vaclav Slavik
Regards,
Vaclav

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[Vaclav Slavik]

Hi,

Post by prabu anand
I really want to recommened to a lot of users for
tamil translation, however win32 version is unusable.
In linux this works great because my default font is
tamil font.

Which should give you a hint about where the real problem is :)
Seriously, is there no way to change Windows' system-wide font
setting to use your font?

Post by prabu anand
Will this "change font " be added in a future version.

The trouble is that it brings some non-trivial problems on non-Unicode
platforms (like, I assume, yours, because you shouldn't have such
problems under Win2k or XP). For example, poEdit uses encoding
reported by the OS for both output and _input_ and I really have no
idea how would it convert entered text into UTF-8 (which it uses
internally) if the encoding reported by OS is not what you use in
your Tamil font (I assume the encoding will be misreported because of
lack of Tamil l10n of Windows...).

Post by prabu anand
Attached is the translated po file for my language
tamil(ta). I've done this using poedit. Pls. commit
this to cvs...

Thanks!

Post by prabu anand
I've some problems ... i copy the mo file generated at
the end to /usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/poedit.mo,
when i start poedit, i'm getting segmentation fault.
Any idea why this is happening. my poedit version is
poedit-semistatic-1.1.10-1mdk

The problem here is that wxWindows 2.3.2 (against which the semistatic
version is compiled) didn't handle UTF-8 encoding in catalogs. You
need to either recompile poEdit against wxWindows 2.3.3 (see
http://www.wxwindows.org) or you can convert the catalog to "native"
encoding used for Tamil in Unix (sorry, I have no idea which it is,
not even _if_ it is something other than UTF-8).

HTH,
Vaclav