i18n, dialogs and wx

Use of XRC

• We use message factory : import OSAFMessageFactory as
• This construct can't be used in the built-ins (like wx) so we can't use XRC
• Or we need to redirect the wx_GetTranslation() from wx to our message factory
• We have few dialogs using XRC so we may as well rewrite them without using it
• We already use the Utils package, looks enough for all our dialogs
• We use also system dialogs and those need the system to be launched in the relevant language (using the -locale is not enough)
• That being said, letting devs (especially parcel and other contributors) use XRC would be great
• John, Brian and Markku to look into how to make XRC work with our translated .po file
• Port the current XRC dialogs to CPIA and wxPython or other solution, Markku to work on this

Other wx / i18n issues

• Markku and Brian will work on doing a list of what needs to be done in wx
• Markku will modify the functional tests to support localization testing
• Could be that some things don't localize well, we need to experiment ETA : 1 month
• We'll try the primary locale from the OS in 1.0. We won't get the fallback locales for now (will need OS specific SWIG wrapped C code).
• SoC wx: there's a project to have wxStrings being UTF-8
• We won't support bidi and top-down layout. wx does not support that anyway. There's also a SoC wx project for bidi.
• ICU has a layout manager. There's a project (long term) to get wx to support that but won't happen before wxTNG gets out.
• IME: works somewhat, some bugs though, Markku will log those

Localization

• We'd like to distribute translation separately (so we keep download small). We want to use eggs for that.
• How Python eggs are going to localize?
• Need to check with PJE
• We wanted to have that by alpha3
• Note: we agreed that error messages are not supposed to be localized

Tools

• Extraction of po template from Chandler: use tools/createpot
• Translation: use poedit

Summary, List of Actions

• Translate funct tests (Markku)
• Check the XRC things (Brian, John, Markku)
• Check the egg things (Brian, PJE, Markku)
• Check wx issues (Brian, Robin)

-- PhilippeBossut - 31 May 2006