Re: TextPad en Windows XP

["Arafatm" <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Hi Mohammed

I have only gnome installed on my system what can I do ?
kbabel only works in a kde environment.

salam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
To: <doc at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: TextPad en Windows XP


> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:17:46PM +0000, no no wrote:
> > Salam 3alaikum,
> >
> > I have been using TextPad for translating the .po files for the last
months
> > under Windows Me and it worked just fine. This week I have upgraded to
Windows XP.
> > I have also downloaded the newest version of TextPad (XP compatible) and
installed
> > it.
> >
> > The problem I'm facing now is that the program does not show me the
arabic
> > letters in UTF-8 files any more. Instead of them I got a lot of question
marks
> > ?????.
> >
> > I know that windows is not your favorit subject, but please help if you
know
> > how.
> >
>
> This is probably related to your 'Regional Settings'. Do you have Arabic
> enabled?
>
> This is not to bash on Windows (of all flavors), but _seriously_ do NOT
> use anything other than KBabel to translate. This is _extremely_
> important.. so important I cannot impress it more upon you. KBabel is
> the tool to use, KDE3 is out and there are absolutely no excuses.
>
> The reason for this is not only that KBabel helps avoid all the
> potential syntactical errors that may occur by editing a text file w/ a
> regular editor (Textpad or otherwise, under Windows or Linux).. it only
> helps maintain a consistency of the translations. This is perhaps the
> most important thing about it.
>
> So, for the sake of the quality of the translation, use KBabel.
>
> later
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