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[MU]

This program translates the menu of JWM and Icewm after "fixmenus" is executed.


Create a file "Translate-menus.mo" containing words, that shall replace the words from

/root/.jwmrc
and
/root/.icewm/menus

This file must be in the locale folder of your country, for german (de) this is:
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/Translate-menus.mo

Use this file as a template for your own language.

Every translation consists of 2 lines:
x+=1:titles[x]="Help"
x+=1:titles[x]="Hilfe"

So the first has the original word, and the second the translation.
It is extremely important not to forget a character like the ".
Or the translation will not work.

Then edit /usr/sbin/fixmenus to start the translator every time when "fimenus" has updated the menus.
Add as last line:

/usr/local/Translate-menus/translate-menus



Also fix /etc/xdg/templates/
replace the line:

[MU]

Icewm Unicode

I had a problem with unicode in the Icewm-menu in Puppy 3.01.

The Icewm menu did not show the correct characters.

Here is how I could fix it.

First I had to run chooselocale to install german, but NOT utf8 (it is not available anyway).

Then I downloaded the glibc-i18n from Slackware.
Link:
http://dotpups.de/diverse-tgz/glibc-i18n-2.5-noarch-4.tgz
WARNING: it is 16 MB, and 50 or so extracted!

I extracted it to a temporary folder, and copied /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8

The language in /etc/profile (set with chooselocale) still must be de_DE , not de_DE.utf8 !

Now I edit /root/my-applications/bin/starticewm

Here I add 2 lines before icewm is executed:

export LANG=de_DE.utf8
export LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8

Now if you restart X, your Icewm-menu should display characters correctly.
However, in rxvt you still cannot type utf.

So I installed Xterm instead.
Link:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/System_Utilities/rxvt-xterm.pup

It will extract
/usr/bin/rxvt-xterm/rxvt
And a script:
/usr/bin/myrxvt

Now backup your existing /usr/bin/rxvt, then rename myrxvt to rxvt.

Like this rxvt works with unicode, it does not matter if I run it from the Desktop (Rox), from xfe, or from Icewm.

If you would set the LANG=de_DE.utf8 in /etc/profile, rxvt would act erratic.
You then had to hit a key like "ä" twice to see it, also other weired things happened here.

Mark

[magerlab]

in russian there are more problems with many encodings
so icewm didn work with utf-8
what i did is to put txt file named charset into /usr/share/locale/ru
with only one line : utf-8
and it works
also i put ru-Ru-utf folder form glibc locales into /usr/lib/locale and made a symlink to it named simply ru
and i choose this in localechooser
voila!
Icewm works with menu in russian