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@@ -5,33 +5,33 @@ user in language other than English. Unfortunately many languages use
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different charsets under Unix and Windows (and other platforms, to make
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situation even more complicated). These charsets usually differ in so
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many characters it is impossible to use same texts under all platforms.
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wxWindows provide mechanism that helps you avoid distributing many
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wxWindows library provides mechanism that helps you avoid distributing many
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identical, only differently encoded, packages with your application
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(e.g. help files and menu items in iso8859-13 and windows-1257). Thanks
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to this mechanism you can distribute only let's say iso8859-13 data
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to this mechanism you can, for example, distribute only iso8859-13 data
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and it will be handled transparently under all systems.
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Please read \helpref{Internationalization}{internationalization} which
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describes locales concept.
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describes the locales concept.
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Whereever in the following text {\it iso8859-2} and {\it windows-1250} are
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In the following text, wherever {\it iso8859-2} and {\it windows-1250} are
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used, any encodings are meant and any encodings may be substituted there.
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\wxheading{Locales}
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The best way how to ensure correctly displayed texts in GUI across platforms
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The best way to ensure correctly displayed texts in a GUI across platforms
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is to use locales. Write your in-code messages in English or without
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diacritics and put real messages into message catalog (see
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diacritics and put real messages into the message catalog (see
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\helpref{Internationalization}{internationalization}).
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Standard .po file begins with a header like this:
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A standard .po file begins with a header like this:
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\begin{verbatim}
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# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
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# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
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#
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#, fuzzy
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msgid ""
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msgstr ""
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"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
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@@ -44,19 +44,17 @@ msgstr ""
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
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\end{verbatim}
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Notice these two lines:
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Notice this particular line:
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\begin{verbatim}
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#, fuzzy
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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
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\end{verbatim}
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The first tells {\it msgfmt} compiler not to include string "" (empty)
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to compiled .mo catalog. Second one informs about charset used to write
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translated messages.
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It specifies the charset used by the catalog. All strings in the catalog
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are encoded using this charset.
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You have to do 2 things: fill-in proper charset information and delete
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the {\tt fuzzy} line. Your .po file may look like this after doing so:
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You have to fill in proper charset information. Your .po file may look like this
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after doing so:
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\begin{verbatim}
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# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
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@@ -72,28 +70,30 @@ msgstr ""
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"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
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"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-2\n"
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
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\end{verbatim}
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(Make sure that the header is {\bf not} marked as {\it fuzzy}.)
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wxWindows is able to use this catalog under any supported platform
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(although iso8859-2 is Unix encoding and is not understood by Windows).
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(although iso8859-2 is a Unix encoding and is normally not understood by
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Windows).
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How is this done? When you tell wxLocale class to load message catalog that
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contains the header (msgid "". Normal .mo catalogs do {\bf not} contain it,
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you must remove the line with {\it fuzzy}!), it checks the charset. If the
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How is this done? When you tell the wxLocale class to load a message catalog that
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contains correct header, it checks the charset. If the
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charset is "alien" on the platform the program is currently running (e.g.
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any of ISO encodings under Windows or CP12XX under Unix) it uses
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any of ISO encodings under Windows or CP12XX under Unix) it uses
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\helpref{wxEncodingConverter::GetPlatformEquivalents}{wxencodingconvertergetplatformequivalents}
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to obtain encoding that is more common on this platform and converts
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to obtain an encoding that is more common on this platform and converts
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the message catalog to this encoding. Note that it does {\bf not} check
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for presence of this encoding! It only assumes that it is always better to
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have strings in platform native encoding than in an encoding that is rarely
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(if ever) used.
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for presence of fonts in the "platform" encoding! It only assumes that it is
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always better to have strings in platform native encoding than in an encoding
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that is rarely (if ever) used.
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The behaviour described about is disabled by default.
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The behaviour described above is disabled by default.
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You must set {\it bConvertEncoding} to TRUE in
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\helpref{wxLocale constructor}{wxlocaledefctor} in order to enable
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runtime encoding conversion!
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runtime encoding conversion.
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\wxheading{Font mapping}
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@@ -122,26 +122,26 @@ if (!wxTheFontMapper->IsEncodingAvailable(enc, facename))
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\wxheading{Converting data}
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You may want to store all program data (created documents etc.) in
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same encoding, let's say windows1250. Obviously, the best way would
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the same encoding, let's say windows1250. Obviously, the best way would
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be to use \helpref{wxEncodingConverter}{wxencodingconverter}.
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\wxheading{Help files}
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If you're using \helpref{wxHtmlHelpController}{wxhtmlhelpcontroller} there is
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no problem at all. You must only make sure that all HTML files contain
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META tag, e.g.
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no problem at all. You must only make sure that all the HTML files contain
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the META tag, e.g.
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\begin{verbatim}
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="iso8859-2">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso8859-2">
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\end{verbatim}
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and that hhp project file contains one additional line in {\tt OPTIONS}
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and that the hhp project file contains one additional line in the {\tt OPTIONS}
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section:
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\begin{verbatim}
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Charset=iso8859-2
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\end{verbatim}
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This additional entry tells HTML help controller what encoding is used
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This additional entry tells the HTML help controller what encoding is used
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in contents and index tables.
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