On 4/30/10 11:27 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Письмо про алфавиты в CREATE > > Hi, > > Recently a Glyphs dialog was added to Inkscape for easier special > characters insertion. While it certainly is a good thing, there is one > issue I'd like to discuss. > > There are five applications I can name off-top of my head that list > translatable Unicode blocks: > > - Gucharmap > - FontForge > - Fontmatrix > - Inkscape > - Scribus > > But they do not always agree on naming of blocks. E.g. where FontForge > has "Yi syllables and radicals", Inkscape has "Yi syllables" and "Yi > radicals" separately, and so on. I happen to translate four out of > five these applications (except Gucharmap) and I feel PITA growing > despite of using translation memory. >
Should the reference not just be unicode.org? Yi Syllables being their name for this one in particular... > Therefore several questions: > > 1. Is it possible to create a library that would provide a centralized > localizable list of Unicode blocks always matching the current Unicode > specification? > > 2. Or is there a library that could be adapted to solve this issue? > > 3. Or is there an existing solution that simply isn't acknowledged by > developers? > > 4. Would such a list work for any application, be it C/GTK+/gettext or > C++/Qt/TS-QM? > There's probably someone on the list who knows a lot more/is a lot closer to unicode.org.. but.. unicode.org does offer some stuff to download.. http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-1-8 being one.. the numeric systems file in there is an interesting one (page numbering etc). Craig _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
