[Bf-translations-dev] Fwd: [blender-trans] Re: Complex Script is Now Supported? :D AWESOME!

[Dalai Felinto]

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From: Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com>
Date: 2011/10/11
Subject: Re: [blender-trans] Re: Complex Script is Now Supported? :D
AWESOME!
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Hi Amin, I added Persian (...) there.

For the "Language Selection" interface I flipped both Arabic and Persian
names (so they show up correctly). I used the Arabic script for the Persian.
Let me know if they look ok:

http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=18889

"I've also made a map of all the characters in Farsi so we can make another
python file (or add the extra characters to the existing one if possible)
for Farsi to reverse the characters."

Great. Given that there are changes (and not only added letters) I think
it's better to keep farsi as a separate script for now.

I was looking here. Is there any other resource you suggest?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language

The current version of the script is here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3292898/arabic/arabic_to_utf.py

The script should be clear enough for a programmer/farsi speaker.
It takes every letter, calculate their position (isolated, beginning,
middle, end) and returns the absolute utf-8 representation of it.

In the beginning of the file we have the unicode/utf-8 representation of the
letters in their absolute position (range \ufe81 ~ \ufefc).

The letters used in the long if/elif sequence are the non-absolute form of
the letters (\u622 ~ \u644).

Regards,
Dalai


2011/10/10 Amin Babaiepanah <leomoon at gmail.com>

> I've also made a map of all the characters in Farsi so we can make another
> python file (or add the extra characters to the existing one if possible)
> for Farsi to reverse the characters. Please see the attached text file (It's
> UTF-8).
>
> Best regards,
> Amin Babaeipanah
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>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> While googling to read more about Farsi I ran into that:
>> http://no-more-farsi.50webs.com/
>>
>> I wonder if this is actually an issue. As in, should we call it Persian
>> instead of Farsi?
>> And is this the right name of the language in farsi/Persian? فارسی
>> I was to add the needed files in blender code but need to figure those out
>> first.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dalai
>>
>> 2011/10/10 Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com>
>>
>>> > Is the python file below the one that reverses letters?
>>> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3292898/arabic/arabic_to_utf.py
>>>
>>> This is the one I'm using yes. It differs a bit in the result than the
>>> .Net version maintained by the Arabic team. But the results are pretty
>>> close.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/10/8 LeoMoon <leomoon at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Yea reversing should work fine. Some characters are different in Farsi
>>>> but the general system is the same. Tnx for the PO file. I'll start
>>>> translating.
>>>>
>>>> Is the python file below the one that reverses letters?
>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3292898/arabic/arabic_to_utf.py
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 8, 4:30 pm, Dalai Felinto <dfeli... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > Blender doesn't support left oriented languages directly. What we are
>>>> doing
>>>> > for arabic is to "reverse" the "letters" and converting to the char
>>>> that has
>>>> > the position "hardcoded" (so they write correctly). It's not 100%
>>>> either.
>>>> >
>>>> > It seems that Farsi is a variation of Arabic, is that right? If so it
>>>> should
>>>> > be possible to do the same hack there. I can help with that (or what
>>>> may be
>>>> > better, you could ask Yousef Hurfoush to adapt the flip arabic to
>>>> Parsi).
>>>> >
>>>> > If you want a fresh fa.po to start translating you can get it here:
>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3292898/arabic/fa.po
>>>> >
>>>> > Once we have the flipping system working for Farsi as well we can make
>>>> > Blender to support fa_IR.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Dalai
>>>> >
>>>> > 2011/10/8 Ethan Luo <congcong... at gmail.com>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > > Hi Amin,
>>>> >
>>>> > > I think you can just create a new folder there in branch and start
>>>> the
>>>> > > translation work first. Need to discuss with Dailai how we can
>>>> process to
>>>> > > add a new language in Blender via script.
>>>> >
>>>> > > FYI
>>>> >
>>>> > > (1) run update_msg.py (it needs compiled Blender)
>>>> > > (2) run update_pot.py - gather the latest strings from Blender
>>>> > > (3) run update_po.py - sync in the new changes from trunk
>>>> > > (4) run clean_po.py - remove the no longer needed msgstr/msgid
>>>> > > (5) run merge_po.py to bring the new .po file into trunk's .po
>>>> >
>>>> > > Regards,
>>>> > > *罗聪翼/Ethan Luo* <congcong... at gmail.com>
>>>> > > *M: (86)158-5051-1795(GMT+8)*
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>>>> >
>>>> > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM, LeoMoon <leom... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > >> Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > >> Now that complex script is now supported with right-to-left (I saw
>>>> the
>>>> > >> Arabic example) I want to start the translation for Farsi. Code for
>>>> > >> Farsi is "Fa".
>>>> >
>>>> > >> Can somebody point me to the right direction on how to start?
>>>> >
>>>> > >> Thank you for your hard work.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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