Hi there!
I have written the WikiTimeLine extension and a nice user has translated the interface to chinese. But now I have a problem: How do I translate those chinese signs into ANSI Text characters for the wikitimeline.i18n.php message storage file? I have seen that Wikipedia splits those signs into ANSI characters, but I haven't found any way to decode those chinese signs!
Any possible way in php and/or javascript would be ok, I can quickly program such a little helping tool... I just don't know how. I have tried a bit around, but I didn't found the right way to do.
Can somebody please help?
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM, M Sz echalone@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi there!
I have written the WikiTimeLine extension and a nice user has translated the interface to chinese. But now I have a problem: How do I translate those chinese signs into ANSI Text characters for the wikitimeline.i18n.php message storage file? I have seen that Wikipedia splits those signs into ANSI characters, but I haven't found any way to decode those chinese signs!
Any possible way in php and/or javascript would be ok, I can quickly program such a little helping tool... I just don't know how. I have tried a bit around, but I didn't found the right way to do.
All MediaWiki files use UTF-8 encoding, not ANSI. If you're using UTF-8-capable programs, you should be able to just copy and paste into the files and save. If you're using some trash like Notepad, that may not work correctly.
Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!
greetings, Markus
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:29:34 -0400> From: Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com> To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] How to decode chinese characters for extension translation? (*.i18n.php)> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM, M Sz echalone@hotmail.com wrote:> > Hi there!> >> > I have written the WikiTimeLine extension and a nice user has translated the interface to chinese. But now I have a problem: How do I translate those chinese signs into ANSI Text characters for the wikitimeline.i18n.php message storage file? I have seen that Wikipedia splits those signs into ANSI characters, but I haven't found any way to decode those chinese signs!> >> > Any possible way in php and/or javascript would be ok, I can quickly program such a little helping tool... I just don't know how. I have tried a bit around, but I didn't found the right way to do.> > All MediaWiki files use UTF-8 encoding, not ANSI. If you're using> UTF-8-capable programs, you should be able to just copy and paste into> the files and save. If you're using some trash like Notepad, that may> not work correctly.> > _______________________________________________> Wikitech-l mailing list> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:06 PM, M Sz echalone@hotmail.com wrote:
Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!
I used to use TextPad and Notepad++, which are both free as in beer but not as in speech. For real free software, you could always use something like gvim, but it's not really noted for its ease of use.
Thank you! That should work...
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:15:14 -0400> From: Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com> To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] How to decode chinese characters for extension translation? (*.i18n.php)> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:06 PM, M Sz echalone@hotmail.com wrote:> > Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!> > I used to use TextPad and Notepad++, which are both free as in beer> but not as in speech. For real free software, you could always use> something like gvim, but it's not really noted for its ease of use.> > _______________________________________________> Wikitech-l mailing list> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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M Sz schrieb:
Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!
I like jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
OpenSource (released under GPL)
Raymond.
Geany is excellent, free and works for Windows, Linux and Mac :-) http://geany.uvena.de/
Raimond Spekking wrote:
M Sz schrieb:
Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!
I like jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
OpenSource (released under GPL)
Raymond.
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Aran aran@organicdesign.co.nz wrote:
Geany is excellent, free and works for Windows, Linux and Mac :-) http://geany.uvena.de/
Raimond Spekking wrote:
M Sz schrieb:
Ok thanks, it worked with UltraEdit (and Format UTF8 - without BOM), but UltraEdit is just a Trial Version. Does somebody know a good UTF8 Editor for Windows that's free?Anyway, thanks!
I like jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
OpenSource (released under GPL)
Raymond.
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All of these are great suggestions for individual editors. As far as IDEs go, Eclipse and the derived Aptana (my preferred IDE at the moment) both make for a good choice.
http://www.eclipse.org/ http://www.aptana.com/
-Chad
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