[Chandler-dev] Last weeks progress in i18n of Chandler

[Markku Mielityinen]

Hi,

A brief list of things that I have done last week:

1) The wxGetTranslation-MessageFactory pipe is ready and I am able to 
test it as soon as I get the latest patches from Brian in this regard. 
The code has been reviewed by RobinD and as it is relatively 
straightforward I don't expect there to be any problems with this.

2) I have investigated the use of XRC based dialogs in Chandler. The 
pipe from section 1) should make these translate correctly but rewriting 
these in python is still possible (although hardly necessary).

3) The functional tests have been modified to test unicode support but 
they cannot be run at the moment. The problems lie in the functional 
testing environment, see bugs 5891 
<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5891> and 5892 
<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5891> for examples. 
Mikeal is making changes to the testing environment so I have put this 
on hold and will continue to work on this next week.

4) The filesystem unicode tests in /chandler/parcels/osaf/sharing/tests 
passed in Windows with '\u00FC' characters in the filenames. An 
interesting observation was that cygwin terminal and svn do not support 
unicode filenames. The terminal showed '?' in place of '\u00FC' and the 
svn was unable to process these files and exitted with and error. I will 
repeat this test in Linux as well.

5) I have also investigated the possibility to make wxPython makefiles 
to support incremental builds, which would yield considerable time 
saving in future development.

Cheers,
   Markku