[gnome-cyr] Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should explicitly care about it (fwd)
- From: Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>
- To: gnome-cyr gnome org
- Subject: [gnome-cyr] Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should explicitly care about it (fwd)
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:27:17 +0500 (SAMST)
Привет всем!
Странная ситуация складывается.. По их утверждениям Evolution прекрасно
поддерживает i18n и вообще без проблем работает с русским в частности..
К сожалению, у меня сейчас нет Evo-0.9 чтобы все это проверить и ответить им
(я по дурости забыл на болванку ее положить) - может кто хоть что-нить может
ответить им? У меня Evo-0.9 появится в лучшем случае в понедельник вечером - а
ковать железо лучше не отходя от кассы :) Так что - подбавьте огоньку, если
есть возможность!
Best regards,
-Vlad
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 24 Mar 2001 19:02:16 -0500
From: Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>
Cc: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>, gnome-hackers gnome org,
gnome-i18n gnome org, gnome-devel-list gnome org
To: Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>
Subject: Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should
explicitly care about it
X-Mailer: Evolution/0.9 (Preview Release)
a few notes...
On 24 Mar 2001 17:18:13 +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> On 24 Mar 2001, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
>
> > > I think no more than 1.5 month of work needed for fixing 90% of all software
> > > and libraries shipped with fifth toe and gnome (evolution not included, fixing
> > > it will require almost 2 weeks IMO).
> >
> > What are you basing this estimate on?
>
> I18n-friendliness of mailer requires considerable efforts. It's reallistical
> to code everything needed in 7 days (worst case estimation) with very little
> testing, and dedicate a week to testing all i18n aspects - that's why I
> estimated it as 2 weeks.
>
> > We are doing our best to make Evolution fully I18N-aware (eg. we are
> > using UTF-8 all over the place, and we have EFont to deal with the font
> > issues). Any feedback on what should be improved to make our I18N
> > support better would be truly appreciated, as we do want to make
> > non-latin-1 users happy before 1.0 gets shipped.
>
> Thank you for your intents. Yes, utf8 can be considered a requisite for i18n,
> but it's not all that is needed. Here is a list of what is needed:
>
> * charset in which messages are sent and transfer encoding in which mails are
> sent has to be configurable by user (sending everything in utf8 is not
> sufficient since there are email to pager gateways that are stupid, and
> pagers don't like utf8), and utf8 is not always good idea due to size of
> resultant representation (it's better to try to send messages in single-byte
> charset).
Camel does this, it chooses the best charset for each mime part.
>
> * Properly setting charset name in header and for each attachment of
> text/plain type, properly encode body per settings
again, we do this too.
>
> * recoding the bodies/attachments and subjects of messages received to the
> internal representation of MUA (utf8 in case of Evo).
yup, do this.
>
> * properly dealing with charsets of any other data Evo deals with (calendar
> and contacts)
can't speak for the calendar and addressbook, but I think they do.
>
> * when uploading mails to pilots etc message bodies and subjects have to be
> recoded in the form Pilots expects (I didn't check this).
we don't yet sync mail with palms, but if/when we will (probably won't
happen until after 1.0?)
>
> * printing messages correctly
I can't say for certain that we do this, but I believe that we do.
Jeff
PS: If you know of instances where I am wrong about the mailer, please
let ettore or I know so that I can fix them.
I only know of one place that is/might be broken, and that is in the
SASL code (I should bugzilla this...)
Actually, this is most likely broken.
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