Hindi as a language in rockbox

[crzyboyster]

For those that don't know, Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages in India and I think that a language from South Asia should be included in rockbox because you have lots of users from there.

I was just reading the font stats page at the rasher rockbox site and noticed that Devanagari font is 95% supported by unifont! I am interested in making a lang file for rockbox that can use Hindi. What would be the proper way to do this? I run windows so compiling would be a problem on my ancient computer.

I'm probably going to submit a feature request for this, but in case that isn't going to be done, I would like to know how to do it myself.

Cheers

[Domonoky]

As translation can only be done by people knowing the target language it would be good if you step forward and do it :-)

I think you can do everything for translation without a development enviroment. Check the wiki, especially this page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LangFiles

cheers back..

[crzyboyster]

I'm not much of a developer and I have no clue how to do most of that stuff. My biggest confusion is how I will get the Devanagari letters into notepad style encoding. I'll probably put in a feature request soon.

[nls]

.lang files are utf-8 encoded text files so you should be able to use almost any text editor.

[crzyboyster]

Sorry for digging up my old thread. I know a good deal of Hindi and I was wondering whether or not someone on this forum knows how to compile AND knows Hindi and is willing to make this a reality.

I will try this out myself and see how it goes.

And notepad should work for this, right? So I just take a word like those found at

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=platts&query=music&matchtype=exact&display=utf8

and copy the word in Devanagari script into the english.lang notepad file, right? And it would function fine?

Of course, I would need to compile it, right?

[markun]

Sorry for digging up my old thread. I know a good deal of Hindi and I was wondering whether or not someone on this forum knows how to compile AND knows Hindi and is willing to make this a reality.

Many people here know how to compile, but that's not really needed to work on a language file. Just edit the text and after it gets committed it will be shipped with every new build of rockbox.

And notepad should work for this, right?

Yes. Here you find some editors you could use:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UnicodeGuide#Text_editors_supporting_Unicode

So I just take a word like those found at

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=platts&query=music&matchtype=exact&display=utf8

and copy the word in Devanagari script into the english.lang notepad file, right? And it would function fine?

Correct, but copy english.lang to hindi.lang first.

Of course, I would need to compile it, right?

No, just open a new entry in the patch tracker and post your hindi.lang file there.

Thanks for making another translation btw!

[crzyboyster]

To tell you the truth, I haven't even started with the actual translation  

So, here's my question: I got the latest version of the english.lang file and copied it out into a text document called "hindi.txt" which can be renamed to hindi.lang when finished, correct?

I added in my first word and all I got in the file was "उदास".

Here's the funny part, most likely, you won't be able to view that script, but I can because I have a Devanagari font installed. All you will be able to view is boxes, correct? How will rockbox not just display boxes and actually show what's supposed to be shown?

And here's what's really supposed to be shown (attached)


EDIT: Another question: If I attempt to do this translation and become 50% finished, will this get accepted and then more can be committed as I become finished with it?

I can tell you by looking through some of the strings that about 30-40% of them have no literal translation, so I would probably have to be creative and come up with some sort of slang/pure Hindi so that most can understand.

[Llorean]

Those of us with decent web browsers and OSes see "उदास" just fine. :-P

If your file is actually saved in Unicode, as markun suggested, Rockbox will be able to handle it just fine as long as the font the user has contains the appropriate characters.

[yapper]

If you are using Windows, this might help : http://devanaagarii.net/windows/

[crzyboyster]

Actually, I've been on that site a couple of times before and I already have a Devanagari font for windows installed so that's not a problem.

I have a question with the actual editing, though. This seems to be really simple...almost too simple. Here's a snippet of one phrase code:

  id: LANG_BOOKMARK_CONTEXT_RESUME
  desc: bookmark context menu, resume this bookmark
  user:
 
    *: "Resume"
 
 
    *: "Resume"
 
 
    *: "Resume"
 

Am I just supposed to change the words in quotes to (let's say) this:

  id: LANG_BOOKMARK_CONTEXT_RESUME
  desc: bookmark context menu, resume this bookmark
  user:
 
    *: "shooru"
 
 
    *: "shooru"
 
 
    *: "shooru"
 

Only in Hindi as I can't find the actual Devanagari word for it right now...

[LambdaCalculus]

All you need to change is the string with the "dest" tags, and the "voice" tags. "dest" is what will show up on screen, and "voice" is what will be used for voice generation.

[markun]

If your file is actually saved in Unicode, as markun suggested, Rockbox will be able to handle it just fine as long as the font the user has contains the appropriate characters.

Here you can check what our fonts support:

http://rasher.dk/rockbox/fontstats/

There is only 1 Devanagari font right now: unifont

[crzyboyster]

I'm going to start working on this as soon as the whole Cabbie 2.0 Default Theme thing is over and hopefully I can translate well and somebody will use it  

EDIT:
Here is the Hindi translation: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8446