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World War Two Casualties
Take look at the list of casualties by country in World War Two. Changed my perception of the war - far more losses in Russia and China than I would have expected...
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Peace - at last!
The moment I've been waiting for for a long time ... See XOpenWin - a plot afoot a long time ago to use things from Wine to get native Windows programs to run on an X Server. This message recently alerted me to a program that begins to do
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Dictionaries
Did some improvements to pomerge with Dwayne on Friday. Also started at looking at integrating dictionaries - like Swahili - think I know what needs to be patched now to integrate them into the build.
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OpenOffice.org debug builds
Pavel's build system also produces debug builds which add a reference number for each string. This is really nice as we can quickly look up any untranslated/mistranslated string in the GSI file and then in the PO file (which led me to discover that the Send command
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Splash Screens forever
My OpenOffice.org patches work, we have a nice splash screen :-) (Fixed a problem with my mods to the build system where it was trying to get the patches from the wrong directory). The intro screen didn't come through though, so had to do a patch to
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Prison, Restitution and Translation
Last night at church we had the final of three training seessions on being a multi-cultural community in South Africa. Jabu spoke about his experiences in the struggle, going to prison, what God did in his life. It reminded me of The Heavenly Man. Then Charles from the Foundation for
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Bugfixing etc
Did a bunch of bug fixing and enhancements on the translate tools today (mostly in response to emails on the list and from Dwayne) and helped Dwayne with problems with csv etc. Also tried to get GnomeMeeting going which we did in the end but the buzzing and slowness irritated
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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.
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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
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Simplifying Open Source Localization
Great article on Automating Government with e-Governance in India talks about the need to simplify localization of Linux software: Additional attention should be paid to simplifying the steps to add additional language support to the various Linux applications in order to further advance Linux adoption by government agencies. Finally, improved
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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...
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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...