Persian Language

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Mehdi Alidoost,

thank you for this update and the second update as well. I've committed your 
second update into our SVN so that it will be included in the next release and 
also in the next nightly windows build.

Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 schrieb Mehdi Alidoost:
> I'll consider your suggestion for rest of file.
> By attachment I send second file contain 6% of file with fa_IR.po name. I
> think fa_IR must be better choose than fa.

I think fa.po is probably just fine. The rule for the po files is as follows: 
If there is only translation per language, it is named by only the language 
code ("fa" in your case) without the country suffix ("IR" in your case). Only 
if there is more than one translation for one language and the difference 
being the country-specific translations, the country code is added as the 
suffix. You can see this in the po/ directory: We have pt.po for general 
Portugese but additional pt_BR.po for Brazilian portugese. All other 
portugese-speaking countries (i.e. everything except Brazil here) will use the 
pt.po, whereas only Brazil will use pt_BR.po. Hence, I suggest we should stick 
with fa.po.

One additional suggestion for you: The first approx. 20 lines of the fa.po 
file contains the header information (right after msgid "" and Project-Id-
Version), which you should edit according to your language and name. For an 
example see e.g.
 http://translationproject.org/PO-files/fa/iso_3166-3.12.1.fa.po

> Also I want to is it possible to create local calendar for language? We
>  need jalali Calendar for Persian , if you guide me I can develop this
>  Calendar.

I'm afraid this is quite a difficult task, as several parts throughout gnucash 
have to be updated in order to support the Jalali calendar system as well. 
Gnucash's native GUI toolkit is gtk, but their calendar data type "GDate" 
specifically only supports Gregorian calendar. By some googling, I didn't 
found any C source code which could easily be adapted to implement a 
conversion of (Gregorian) GDate into Jalali calendar. Even if we found code 
that implements the conversion itself, we would still have to adapt all places 
throughout gnucash which convert a GDate into a string or construct it from 
string... And the most difficult part of this would be to (re-)write the 
display widget which you get when you click on the little button right next to 
the date.

It seems KDE has some useful implementation of the Jalali calendar,  
http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/jalali_calendar_updated but this will 
be C++ and thus not readily useful for us... The calendar  feature is a 
difficult one.

Regards,

Christian