Re: Expended military alphabet

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Noah:

Thanks for reminding me about the 'unicode-translation' project.  I 
remember thinking at the time you announced it that it would be an ideal 
solution for this and related accessibility issues.

regards

Bill


Noah Levitt wrote:

> About a year and a half ago I created a project "unicode-translation" 
> which contains translations of unicode character names and certain 
> other data. I intended to use the translations in gucharmap but I 
> still haven't gotten around to incorporating it. There are just a few 
> partial translations so far. I think there are a couple of updates 
> waiting at the translation project site. The effort to translate 
> unicode data has a head start because ISO10646 publishes character 
> names and some of the other data in French as well as English. Anyway, 
> the project is here if you want to use it: 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/unicode_2dtranslation
>
> If you decide it's worth having the translations at all, I wouldn't 
> worry too much about optimizing the po files. If translations are 
> complete they're gonna have to be big anyway, right? The real problem 
> is that it's about 15,000 strings, a lot of work.
>
> Noah
>
> On 6/20/05, *Alexandra Telescu* <at baum ro <mailto:at baum ro>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I want to have in gnopernicus all characters translated in every
>     language. This is used to spell the text when in military mode. At
>     this
>     time gnopernicus uses a 'translation' table only for the base roman
>     alphabet and few other special characters.
>
>     The big challenge here is how to do this for _all_ characters
>     (shown by
>     charmap) and to
>     use as less resources as possible. Having all marked for translation
>     will make the .po files really huge.
>
>     I checked how charmap deals with this problem, and I discovered that
>     the "descriptions" of characters are not translated, at least for
>     Japanese and Romanian. Does anybody have an idea how to deal with
>     this
>     situation?
>
>     This problem is subject of gnopernicus bug:
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307566
>
>     Regards,
>     Ada
>
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