Re: [Zenmap] Translations need updating!

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Jie,

Thank you so much for this contribution! I'll be looking into the issues
you raised, so expect a couple more replies here. First, I want to address
the issue of the date representation in the Scan Details widget. The date
comes from time.strftime, which returns a byte string encoded under the
current locale's settings. I pushed a patch in r33860 to decode it into a
unicode object using the locale's settings, which fixes the encoding issue.

I still have a question regarding the appropriateness of the format string
we are using, "%B %d, %Y - %H:%M". In English, this looks like "December
09, 2014 - 14:31", and in zh_CN "十二月 09, 2014 - 14:31". I don't know how
culturally appropriate this format string is in every locale. It seems to
me like a better solution would be the "%c" format, which is English "Tue
09 Dec 2014 02:31:03 PM CST" and zh_CN "2014年12月09日 星期二 14时30分45秒". If that
gets to be too long, we could use "%X %x" which becomes "02:37:06 PM
12/09/2014" and "14时35分15秒 2014年12月09日". Or we could use an international
standard like RFC 3339 (ISO 8601) which would be "2014-12-09T14:35:15-06:00"

Thoughts?
Dan

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Jie Jiang <jerrynwin () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've finished Zenmap Chinese Mandarin(zh) translation and it works well on
> my machine(both Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Desktop and Windows 7).
>
> During my translation work, i found several problems that occurs on a
> Chinese operating system:
>
> 1. Chinese date format displays not very well in Scan Details
> widget,following Started on: Finished on:
>
>
> ​
>
> 2. some texts are not included in the zenmap.pot , so you can't translate
> it.
>
> I have tranlated almost all of the strings in zenmap.pot, except those
> jargon ,like: IP, TCP and so on. I think that when it comes to technology
> expressions, English can be more precise and concise than other languages,
> maybe it's because the translation is not that good. So when i read some
> developer documentations, i prefer the English(original) version, and there
> are many people in non-English-speaking nations feel the same way I do.
>
> In this case, I think Zenmap can add a language-choose button to let the
> user choose which language will Zenmap use. I write a simple patch to
> implement this.
>
> Actually, what i want is when user had click the language button he wants,
> Zenmap could change its language immediately, but this patch can only
> change the widgets' language which start after the click. I'm reading
> pygtk's documentations and try to figure out that, redraw all the widgets
> maybe?
>
> I have just begun learning Nmap's source code and still don't understand
> the whole structure well. This patch,maybe useless, is just a presentation
> of my idea.
>
>
> Please , feel free to give any comment, you guys' suggestions are so
> important to me.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Regards
> Jiang Jie
>
>
>
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