Fw: Translators wanted

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Serguei Mokhov <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:03 PM

Serguei Mokhov writes:

Are there people working on the translation into the Russian language?
If yes, then what messages are you working on and what encoding are you using?
I can start translating the messages, just want to make sure so that we
don't duplicate the effort.

Use the koi8-r encoding unless you have strong reasons against it.

Well, the KOI8-R is the standard encoding, no objection. However, Win32 apps
use Windows-1251, which is pretty common on Win machines (e.g. pgAdmin tool
on Windows will have to have messages in this exactly encoding), or console
Windows apps by historical reasons (from DOS) use the 866 code page. If people
write standard Windows or console client, which rely on the messages will
get garbage most likely or will switch back to English ones.

I can send the translated messages in the all mentioned encodings, but the
problem is how will you place those files in the tree (according to the naming
conventions ll[_RR].po one can have only one language per region per component)
and plus, backbends probably have no way to know what kind of clients are
connected to them and which encoding is more appropriate for the given client
in the same language... These problems prevent different clients with the same
language but different encoding schemes equally well display those messages to the
user unless someone is willing (and has ideas how) to find a solution to the problems.

Serguei