On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, yinung at Gmail wrote: Wow! That's great. All we need is zh.po: a copy of gretl's gretl.pot filled out with the Chinese translations. From this, the Chinese gretl.mo is generated automatically. In the first instance you can send your translation to me and I'll add it to gretl CVS. If you wish, we can then give you CVS access so you're able to update the file yourself. The only other gretl translation at present that uses a non-Latin character set is Russian. I've tried the Russian version on Linux and had no problems; I'm not sure about Windows but I guess Courier New supports cyrillic. If MS Gothic works for Chinese we could make that the default fixed font under Windows when gretl detects that it's running in Chinese. As for setting the LANG environment variable, that should be required only if you want gretl to run in a language other than the one chosen in the Windows control panel. Allin Cottrell

Dear Allin You are right. zh_TW is the default language setting for Traditional Chinese in Windows 2000 and XP. I found that my translation of the gretl,po can work in Windows with the font "MS Gothic" without "set LANG=zh_TW" and with the fonts "free mono" or "monospace." in Ubuntu 7.x and 8.x. It will be very great if you can make the default fixed font under Windows and Ubuntu as I tested above. I am sending you the po file I have now in a separate private mail for the current PO version. It will be good if you can give me the CVS access so I am able to update the file myself for the future. Yi-Nung Yang PS: I also built a simple web page in order to promote the great software "gretl." Thanks for you and others great contributions. http://yaya.it.cycu.edu.tw/gretl/ 2009/1/23 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;:

Dear Allin: I just tested the installation of CVS into Windows XP and 2000. They all look great but the default fixed font is still Courier New. Yes, I do. My login name is yi-nung. Thanks. Yi-Nung Yang 2009/1/24 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;:

Dear Allin Thank. I did not test the gretl 1.8.0 on a fresh Windows. I will find one to test. Yes, the code page of Traditional Chinese Windows is 950. By the way, what software you would suggest me to use for updating the CVS? I am new in using this. Yi-Nung Yang

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 andreas.rosenblad(a)ltv.se wrote: Just checking -- but does the "password server" protocol really work for developer CVS on sourceforge? I thought you needed to upload a public key and use the "ext" method, but maybe I'm wrong. Allin

Dear Andreas Thanks. TortoiseCVS works fine for me. Yi-Nung 2009/1/27 <andreas.rosenblad(a)ltv.se&gt;:

Dear Allin I did some tests for the traditional Chinese translation on the "fresh" installed WinXP and Ubuntu 8.10. On WinXP: The default fixed font (from CVS) in /Tools/Preferences is "Courier new." This will not work for Chinese characters in ouput windows. After tests, I found "Nsimsun" will be the best option for fixed font. Though MS Mincho and MS Gothic will also work except in gretl console in which there are some strange characters. For example, "\" will be shown as "¥" in Traditional Window XP. The default font set in gnuplot is "Verdana" in win XP. This font does not work at all. The font should be (manually) changed to Tahoma (or None) to show the correct Chinese characters in Title of plots/axes, legends, labels. On Ubuntu 8.10: The default fixed font in /Tools/Preferences is "monospace." This font works great for Chinese characters in ouput windows. However, the default font in gnuplot,"vera" does not show correct Chinese characters. Other three options, None, free sans, and luxi sans cannot work either. But if I save the plot to session as an icon and right-click on the plot in the icon view to select "edit plot commands, and then push the "Run" button, the Chinese characters will be correctly shown without any settings of fonts. Thanks Yi-Nung Yang 2009/1/26 yinung at Gmail <yinung.cycu(a)gmail.com&gt;:

Dear Allin Attached please find the gnuplot command generated by gretl 1.8.0cvs (build date 2009-01-31) with Chinese characters for the x-axes of the correlograms and the default font "verdana.". This can be replicated by opening djclose.gdt and then right-clicking djclose to choose the coorelogram with lag=4 under zh_TW environment in Windows XP. I also attached two png files. ACF-with-correct-Chinese1.png shows the correct Chinese characters while ACF-with-wrong-Chinese.png shows the wrong Chinese characters. Hopefully these can help. Best wishes Yi-Nung Yang ==================================================== # set term pngcairo font "verdana,10" set encoding utf8 # correlogram set style line 1 lc rgb "#ff0000" set style line 2 lc rgb "#0000ff" set style line 3 lc rgb "#00cc00" set style line 4 lc rgb "#bf25b2" set style line 5 lc rgb "#8faab3" set style line 6 lc rgb "#ffa500" set style increment user set size 1.0,1.0 set multiplot set size 1.0,0.48 set xzeroaxis set key right top set xlabel '落後期 (lag)' set yrange [-1.1:1.1] set origin 0.0,0.50 set title 'ACF for djclose' set xrange [0:5] plot \ '-' using 1:2 notitle w impulses lw 5, \ 0.0389823 title '+- 1.96/T^0.5' lt 2, \ -0.0389823 notitle lt 2 1 0.99825 2 0.996506 3 0.994863 4 0.993239 e set origin 0.0,0.0 set title 'PACF for djclose' set xrange [0:5] plot \ '-' using 1:2 notitle w impulses lw 5, \ 0.0389823 title '+- 1.96/T^0.5' lt 2, \ -0.0389823 notitle lt 2 1 0.99825 2 0.00073717 3 0.0279233 4 0.00493678 e set nomultiplot ==================================================== 2009/2/17 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;: