[Caminol10n] simplified chinese translation nearly finished

[Smokey Ardisson]

(Er, sorry about the HTML; not sure how that happened.  Here's the 
same message, in plain text as $DEITY intended....)

William,

At 12:56 PM +0900 on  10/5/07, William Xu wrote:

>Also, i looked into other localizations, like japanese and
>dutch. Compared with them, i found they both only have one file
>`Localizable.strings', containing all the translations that i
>bet. While, in my zh_CN.lproj, that file is empty, instead, there are
>many separated .strings files, like MainMenu.nib.strings. Could this
>be the problem? How can I merge separated .strings into
>`Localizable.strings'? In appleglot, i have already run Final Pass.

The main Localizable.strings file is one of the .strings files that 
is UTF-16LE encoded, so, near as I can tell, it gets completely 
ignored by AppleGlot/ADViewer (whichever one looks through all the 
files and grabs the .strings files for you to translate).

The solution here should be to convert that file to UTF-16BE so that 
the tools will recognize it.  Generally speaking, it's probably a 
good idea to run Wevah's script on your environment.  I've written up 
an article for the site about this <http://cl10n.rwx.it/node/30>, but 
some of it is just a guess right now (which folder to run the script 
on, and when you need to run it), since the 10.3 version of AppleGlot 
doesn't have this bug on 10.3, and the 10.4 version of AppleGlot has 
completely disappeared from Apple's l10n pages (and the 10.3 version 
of AG is so broken on 10.4 to be nearly worthless, at least on 
Intel).  Anyone who actually has AppleGlot 3.3.x, please run some 
tests and offer corrections ;-)

JJ, any news about a new set of tools?  Or even what happened to the 
10.4 version of AG (3.3.x); anyone who didn't get it when it was 
available is going to be completely out of luck, since the 10.3 
version (3.2.9) doesn't appear to actually run nibtool, and the app 
itself throws exceptions and fails very often when run on 10.4 
(Intel).

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
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The Camino Project