[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new Simplified CHinese localization

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:59:00PM +0100, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:30:06PM +0800, hjcao wrote:
> > > I uploaded a new zh_CN.po to
> > > ftp://upload.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/
> > > It is mainly tested with gtk-2.0 client. Hope that
> > > someone will try and test it.
> >
> > Let me first say: I don't understand any Chinese. However I have
> > tested it. I get some errors which are not caused by you but gtk2 and
> > freeciv. And I'm able to see some parts of Chinese. Mainly "Ok",
> > "Cancel" and so on.
> >
> > Hongjia Cao: Do you want to become the official Chinese translator?
> > You will get an account and can check in updates to the po-file by
> > yourself.
> >
> > Vasco: What does
> >
> > ** (civclient:12813): WARNING **: Unable to open XIM input method, falling 
> > back
> > to XLookupString()
> >
> > tries to tell me?
> 
> Good question. But IIRC XIM means X Input Method. Perhaps this has to do
> with the way X must handle Chinese keyboard input? I doubt they can use
> the same method of input as for Latin, since Chinese has thousands of
> possible characters based on a limited number of strokes.
> 
> You probably need to install support for this in X and you haven't
> installed the appropriate language support.

Do you get the same error?

> > I also get a lot of
> > 1: received bad string in packet (type 102, len 490) from server
> 
> As I have said here before many times, the server is broken. On an UTF-8
> locale it will send ISO-8859-1 (nation city and ruler names) mixed with
> UTF-8 (help strings, etc) to the client. The client has no way of possibly
> handling this sanely.
> 
> The server must send text always in the same encoding, whatever it may
> be. What this means, is that the current server is broken in any other
> locale than ISO-8859-1.
> 
> We have talked and talked about how to make the server always send/receive
> UTF-8 over the network, but nothing was commited to CVS HEAD. Remember?

I know this. I was just adding it for completeness.

        Raimar

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