[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
** Bug watch added: gna.org #18826 http://gna.org/bugs/?18826 ** Also affects: wesnoth via http://gna.org/bugs/?18826 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
One thing to "fix" this is to disable the language from the selection all together. This though might hinder translators in that language and won't improve the situation to get the translation into better shape. Thus I am setting this bugreport to status "won't fix" and suggested to upstream transl

[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-11 Thread Espreon
Note that you may wish to also cover the Devanagari Extended plane too. To do that, make the [font] codeblock I mentioned earlier look like this: [font] name="" codepoints=2304-2431,43232-43259 [/font] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-11 Thread Espreon
OK, I tried it, and GUI1 at least renders Devanagari, but I'm not sure if it's being shaped right since I can't read Devanagari. At least it doesn't look completely disastrous. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bu

[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-11 Thread Espreon
Note that for any hope whatsoever of having the affected GUI elements render devanagari, the Devanagari plane needs to be covered by fonts.cfg (which is in data/hardwired/fonts.cfg) and there needs to be a font that has devanagari glyphs in the game's fonts directory. So, do the following: 1. Put

[Bug 694665] Re: Square blocks shown instead of translated strings in some areas (when language is set to marathi)

2011-10-11 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Marathi is one of the languages which isn't translated too well at all, you can see the stats of the translation work of wesnoth here: http://www.wesnoth.org/gettext/ Unfortunately it is even unknown to the developers whether the GUI code would be able to cope with a font for that language. The on