[ros-translate] some questions about translation

[Magnus Olsen]

Hi tsk
1. Yes ros are able to show Japanese  if the font
     support Japanese for ReactOS are compiling as unicode.
     and few place are compling as ansi But we are working on
     to make whole ros unicode safe.

2.  Which file are being translate by Wine to Japanese I do not know
     But the swedish translate team are translating all en.rc to sv.rc
     then it be send a patch to wine with the swedish translating
     see reactos wikis about translation or come and vistor us at irc
     #reactos at freenode.net, there u can get the answer much faster.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tsk" <tsk_n at mail.goo.ne.jp>
To: <ros-translate at reactos.com>
Sent: den 18 September 2005 15:12
Subject: [ros-translate] some questions about translation


> Hello. I'm tsk.
> I'm not a Japanese translator yet, but I have some questions about
translation.
>
> 1) If Japanese fonts are available, is ReactOS able to display Japanese
messages of ReactOS?
>
> In other words, I want to do this not in German but in Japanese :
>
http://reactosde.re.funpic.de/mediadetail.php?sec=Screenshots&cat=r030s&mdnr=114
>
> 2) Which resource file will be translated by WINE?
> While ReactOS translates resource files,
> WINE project also translates resource files.
> Translated resource files by WINE will be included into ReactOS,
> but I don't know which file will be translated by WINE,
> and which file I have to translate.
>
> ...Should I put this question to WINE's Japanese translator?
>
> 3) Do I have to change font settings in resource files?
> In Japanese translated resource files by WINE project,
> font settings are different from original English settings.
> These changes were made on purpose, I guess.
> Do I have to change font settings in WINE's manner?
>
> Following is a difference between En and Ja:
> En : FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
> Ja : FONT 9, "MS UI Gothic"
>
> 4) Which encoding do I have to use, when I translate resource files in
Japanese?
> Shift_JIS or UTF-8? or other encoding?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Tsk
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