>> So if I were to translate the necessary files, someone could at least give
>> me a screenshot of it running on RO5?
> I expect so, yes.
Excellent.
>> That would be satisfying! I'll have to try to get R05 running under
>> emulation on Windows at least, so I can see my translation in action!
> There's not yet a complete RO5 ROM image for emulation.
No, I tried RPCEmu yesterday with the ROOL IOMD RO5.15 image. I was quite
impressed, actually! But it's a fair way off being usable, you're right.
> It occurs to me that it's likely that the Wimp doesn't even inspect
> strings to be drawn -- it just throws them at the Font Manager, having
> opened the desktop font without an explicit encoding specifier, so it'll
> use whatever the system alphabet is set to. Perhaps, therefore, the Font
> Manager should attempt to fix this case up.
It does seem like the Font Manager would be the place to tackle this. Perhaps
it could have a sort of 'intelligent' mode where it tries to detect if strings
being sent to it are properly encoded, and alter the encoding if it detects
otherwise. I suppose it would have to be quite simple logic, though, or the
overheads would be too great. Hmm...another tricky situation arising to try to
keep legacy code running as the OS moves forward!
>> Any pointers as to where to start with the translation files?
> Copy !NetSurf.Resources.en.Messages to !NetSurf.Resources.ja.Messages,
> translate the strings, and send use the resulting file. That's about it.
> The text at the top of the Messages file describes what the format is.
> Modern Zap can edit UTF-8 encoded files quite happily -- you may have to
> tell it that a file is UTF-8 encoded; I can't remember, off hand.
Thanks for the pointers (and thanks Michael for the Zap version info). I'm
running Zap 1.47 at the moment, and have a bitmap font containing a good deal
of the glyphs necessary for Japanese. Sadly, I think I'll be doing this on
Windows though, as without an input engine, Zap can't help me much ;-)
I'll get back to you once I have something useful.
Thanks,
wpb
