On 09/26/2012 05:14 PM, maning sambale wrote:
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
I completely agree with the two first issues.
Unfortunately, the first issue should really be solved by a native
speaker, so I can't help with that. Native speakers of Mandarin do not
seem to be common on this list ... Also, the issue is larger than that:
if the interface is translated, but not the documentation, there is no
community, etc., a monolingual Chinese will have a lot of difficulties.
I think the second one is related to the issue 6327 I reported
(http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6327). Can you try with the "Ignore
shapefile encoding" option in QGis ? This seems to revert most of the
corrupting data issues that appeared in 1.8 and the upgrade to GDAL.
Regards,
Leyan
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