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translate 0.8b1

OK, hopefully I've wrapped up the encoding problems with properties files as well as some other bugs Dwayne reported. Tested this out on the Mozilla 1.6 Russian xpi and seemed to work fine (though I can't read the results)... So released it as translate 0.8 beta 1, for everyone else to test...

OpenOffice building

OK, I now have OpenOffice.org building nice English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Northern Sotho builds on Linux. Remaining issues:

  • The license and readme files aren't being handled correctly for the non-English builds
  • Character encoding problems (which I thought were fixed ; perhaps the gsi files are old)
  • OpenOffice.org installs don't like installing more than one copy of the same version which is essential for testing multiple languages
  • some translation fixing...

Simplifying Open Source Localization

Great article on Automating Government with e-Governance in India talks about the need to simplify localization of Linux software:

Unembarrassment...

Aha! It was the OpenOffice build failing due to localize errors, I just need to find out what they are now (have install sets but not all files are built properly). If I keep on disagreeing with myself like this, I can provide hours of entertainment...

Embarrassment...

It was actually an error in my modification to Pavel's build scripts that stopped OpenOffice.org from building (it had built correctly but not produced the install sets). All fixed now. I still think OOo could take some simplification though...

Free rubbish article at Washington Times

This is unbelievable...

OOo localize still hopeless...

Well it would be nice if it would build. But localize tends to introduce horrible bugs.

improving pavel's open office build system

Started working on OpenOffice.org stuff again today, wanting to get splash screens etc in. So I set up Pavel's nice build system . It uses ccache so you can pull out a fresh source tree each time without worrying about recompiling stuff.

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