Hi, everybody :<br><br>I am just beginning to translate message PO files (in Scilab 5-beta-1) into Chinese language (zh_TW), and hope that will meet the next release schedule of Scilab 5.<br><br>To test my translation (only few PO file right now), I generated scilab.mo and scilab.po files in loclate\zh_TW\LC_MESSAGES with script generatePoFile in directory toos\localization after setting language to 'zh_TW'.<br>
<br>The attached files are screehshots after startup of Scilab showing banner lines of my Chinese messages by scilex.exe and Wscilex.exe respectively in Windows-XP.<br><br>The first screehshot (scilexChinese.png generated by scilex.exe ) correctly displays Chinese characters , while the second one (wscilexChinese.png by Wscilex.exe) fails.<br>
<br>My Windows-XP locale setting is zh_TW.BIG5 , while messages in core.po file are in UTF-8 encoding.<br><br>It appears to me that Windows will transform messages back to its default encoding (in my case, BIG5) and DOS console (scilex) handle this correctly. But Java console expect an UTF-8 messages and the received BIG5 encoding messages cause its failure in showing Chinese banner lines. <br>
<br>I think this is not a specific problem associate with Chinese language, any multibytes language with locale setting not in UTF-8 will probable fail in the same way.<br><br>I try to trace the source codes of Java console module to find a way to attack this problem. Transform messages back to UTF-8 in ConsolePrint.cpp ( module console) may help , for example :<br>
<br>int ConsolePrintf(char *line)<br>{<br> lineUtf8=localeToUtf8(line); // <------ transform back to utf8<br> CallScilabBridge::display(getScilabJavaVM(), line);<br> return 0;<br>}<br><br>In this way, we need a function 'localeToUtf8' which transform output strings from locale to UTF-8 encoding. This function is provided in Glib and may be implemented form iconv API within current Scialb developement environment.<br>
<br>Hope my test can help and looking forward for suggestions or instructions to attack this problems.<br><br><pre>Best regards,<br><br>YungLee<br></pre><br><br><br>