Spanish Language (Almost Done)

GregorK · #1 (**permalink**) May 3rd, 2008

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Originally Posted by lucasuam

NOTE: I can't see the accents and letters like "ñ" "Ñ" only strange caracters.... will this be corrected when it is re-compiled?? (if it ever is

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.properties files are supposed to be in ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding. Non-latin characters need to be written in unicode escape character sequences, like \uXXXX.
This is of course difficult to write easily. Thats why there is the tool native2ascii coming with the JDK.

I would suggest you two approaches. Either make your translation into a Lang_en_MX.utf8.properties file saved in UTF8 encoding and then run the native2ascii tool:
native2ascii -encoding UTF8 Lang_en_MX.utf8.properties Lang_en_MX.properties

Or use the Gettext PO format which also gives you the possibility to use a wide range of Gettext editors. With the tool prop2po and po2prop you can convert your files in either way.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/prop2po

lucasuam · #2 (**permalink**) May 3rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregorK

.properties files are supposed to be in ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding. Non-latin characters need to be written in unicode escape character sequences, like \uXXXX.
This is of course difficult to write easily. Thats why there is the tool native2ascii coming with the JDK.

I would suggest you two approaches. Either make your translation into a Lang_en_MX.utf8.properties file saved in UTF8 encoding and then run the native2ascii tool:
native2ascii -encoding UTF8 Lang_en_MX.utf8.properties Lang_en_MX.properties

Or use the Gettext PO format which also gives you the possibility to use a wide range of Gettext editors. With the tool prop2po and po2prop you can convert your files in either way.
toolkit

rop2po Â· Translate Toolkit & Pootle

Thanks a lot for the info GregorK

I still don't get very well your approaches but let me tell you some... I'll come back and re-edit this post to make comments on what your are suggesting me. Firstly I mus find out what you are saying... (I know about the "po" files but I've never used such a text editor... so firstly I'll get involved before saying nonsenses.

Kind Regards

EDIT: GregorK. As I promised.... Ok the files WERE converted to ISO-8859-15 and now I can see the accents... I use "gedit" and I did not know about this... but now they seem to work just fine
Luis

lucasuam · #3 (**permalink**) May 3rd, 2008

The files are ready to be used.!

Sorry for the delay

Kind Regards

Luis

EDIT.... sorry there are 2 typpos I forgot to fix in the menu... I 'll upload the zip file again shortly

EDIT 2. Files are now ready