Dear users and devs, Just sharing an experience of teaching a Chinese colleague in the use of QGIS. Overall the experience was very good but much improvement is still needed to accommodate Chinese users.
A few notes: - Many parts of the GUI (menu names, icon labels and tool tips) do not have a Chinese translation. - When creating a new vector layer, there are no option to select an encoding. It defaults to UTF-8. We were able to add new geometries but when adding attribute strings using Chinese characters, it doesn't recognize the entry. Creating a cpg file doesn't help either. Perhaps related to ticket# 5255 [0] - gdalbuildvrt doesn't recognize Chinese directory path ticket# 6412 [1] Apologies if I can't provide a detailed report on each item, I have difficulty debugging the "Chinese" machine. :) Finally, I appeal to Chinese users here to help in the GUI translation. Thanks! QGIS is always awesome! [0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5255 [1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6412 -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
