[Scilab-Dev] Test report of Chinese (or multibytes languages in general) locale mesages with Scilab 5-beta-1

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Yep, it is working.
Note that I have the zh_TW.BIG5 locale on my system.

Sylvestre

Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 22:00 +0800, Yung-Jang Lee a écrit :
> Can you set LANG="zh_TW.BIG5" instead of  LANG="zh_TW"  and check
> again ? In my patch it assume locale in this long format.  
> 
> YungLee
> 
> 2008/6/4 Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr>:
>         [...]
>         
>         > This is just a small patch to test locale to utf encoding
>         concept, it
>         > need further enhancement.
>         
>         It doesn't work under Linux. I have the opposite as you (cf
>         screenshot).
>         I still don't understand the need to go with iconv...
>         Especially when it
>         is working with zh_TW.UTF-8 as locale.
>         Your solution has also the problem that it probably won't work
>         with
>         other charset from thailand, burma or mongolia for example.
>         
>         
>         > I have two questions. First , in my  chinese Java console ,
>         the menu
>         > items are disabled ( unlike your Linux case)  is  this  a
>          bug under
>         > Windows ?
>         
>         The creation of the menu is done with Scilab scripts. Until
>         all the
>         macros have been loaded, they are disabled (because we don't
>         want the
>         user to use it until everything is loaded).
>         Once it is done, we activate them (with their name) and as
>         they are
>         localized, if the initial string used in the creation is not
>         the same in
>         the activation, it doesn't work. (Vincent, correct me if I am
>         wrong).
>         Obviously, it is a bug (maybe a function which is lost because
>         of the
>         asian symbol).
>         
>         Sylvestre
>         
>