Translations -
FreeType font support -
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The idea: GRASS speaking your language
The great worldwide interest in GRASS suggests value in translating GRASS messages to
languages other than english.
The GRASS Development Team is seeking translators.
Please subscribe to the dedicated mailing list at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-translations
This is an opportunity for non-programmers to contribute as messages
can be easily translated. No programming skills required!
Wanted languages
Simple Chinese, Swahili, Hindi, Greek, Tamil, Russian, Telugu, Português, ...
Please join us!
HOWTO
Please refer to the
GRASS messages translation page.
Screenshots
Multi-byte FreeType/TrueType TTF support
The "infrastructure" to support single-byte as well as multi-byte character sets
was implemented (based on the FOSS4G efforts).
A multilingual terminal emulator with multi-byte support is mlterm.
Using this terminal, GRASS 6 is already able to display
e.g. Japanese fonts in SQL queries (here DBF file):
Tcl/TK TTF Support
Also the TclTK based graphical user interface renders TTF
characters. Here an example for simple Chinese (the underlaying
.po file is coded in UTF-8):
Major parts of GRASS 6.4+ were, for example, translated to Vietnamese:
XDRIVER TTF Support
The XDRIVER in GRASS supports True/Free Type Fonts.