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Localization of a .sis file

gehmlich — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:31 +0100

Hi, great article!

I have to localise some Symbian applications that are only available as .sis files.

How to do it? I know that it is possible.

Seriously, I appreciate your comments!

Ronny

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:20:42 +0200

Hello how i can change RTL (Right-to-Left) my sdk is Series60 v20 C++ builderX mobil edition thanks

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seek — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:29:37 +0200

the article is great! my country language and font is not in the list so how can I develope it application resource it self. can I solve it in application level and embedded in symbian or do I have to localize the os(on the os code)?

> Localizing the application name

neekoh — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:54:08 +0200

Ehm... it seems it's working with the same method than in the article: I edited the .rss in notepad and added the CHARACTER_SET UTF8, added some unicode characters and saved is as UTF8. Then removed the three characters in a hex editor (these denote that it's UTF8, right? Nothing to do with notepad... right?). And I now have an application called Â©Â®Â°ChÃ©Ã©rÃŸlfÃŽ on my phone. :) I wonder if this is the only way as it seems a bit hackish...

> Localizing the application name

neekoh — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:10:48 +0200

Hi, good article. What I would like to find out is how to localize the application name itself. Ie. when the phone is set to English display Cheers Mate as the application name in the list and when set to Chinese display 你好朋友

In the .rss file you can add language codes and application names in the caption_list:

CAPTION code=ELangEnglish; caption="Cheers Mate";

CAPTION code=ELangPrcChinese; caption="What to do here";

But again the tools won't let you save the file in any other encoding than ANSI. I tried using the code point notation like with the string literals in code:

CAPTION code=ELangPrcChinese; caption="\x4f60\x597d Mate";

This won't expand to anything, but is displayed just like above (ok, I only tried with the copyright mark or some accented European characters - I don't have a Chinese phone - but the same thing happened.

What can I do here if anything?

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Sochan — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:27:14 +0200

Accually I am having the trouble shootig on this, but after reading this tutorial I found that my knowledge on using font in mobile is better. But I didn't understand about the code PRC, How can we get it and does it relate to Unicode?

Thanks for your kindly

Sochan.

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rj — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:14:55 +0200

Hi,

The resource file doesn't seem to compile because when I try to create the package, it says the .rsc file was not found.

Can you please help out?

Thanks, Rajat

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Anonymous — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:07:14 +0100

I have written all in the notepad and saved them with UTF-8 format.

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ariel — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:27:47 +0100

As I mentioned in the body of the tutorial, MS-VC 6.0 cannot read UTF-8 files properly. The same goes to Code Warrior (5.2). They're simply not aware of it. Therefore, you should not edit your resource file from inside CodeWarrior. Use notepad instead. See my comments in the body of the tutorial.

امن

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Anonymous — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:21:46 +0100

IT IS VERY GOOD TUTORIAL, IT HELPS ME VERY MUCH.

I AM USING URDU FONT (IT IS LIKE ARABIC SCRIPT)

I ALSO ADDED LANG UR IN MMP FILE FOR URDU LANGUAGE SUPPORT

CHARACTER_SET UTF8

RESOURCE TBUF r_example_text_Hello buf="urdu lANG اسدفاسدفا";

I AM USING CODEWARRIOR FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH UIQ 2.1 SDK, WHEN I AM GOING TO OPEN IT, IT DISPALY LIKE THIS

RESOURCE TBUF r_example_text_Hello buf="urdu lANG Ã˜Â§Ã˜Â³Ã˜Â¯Ã™ÂÃ˜Â§Ã˜Â³Ã˜Â¯Ã™ÂÃ˜Â§";

IS THERE ANY FONT INSTALLATION REQUIRED. BCZ IT IS DISPLAYING BOX INSTEAD OF URDU AND ENGLISH TEST ON THE SCREEN

Minor typo

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:44:58 +0100

"\Symbian\UIQ_70\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.rsc", "\Symbian\UIQ_70\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.r31"
"!:\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.rsc"

should be:

"\Symbian\UIQ_70\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.rsc" "\Symbian\UIQ_70\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.r31"
"!:\system\apps\MyApp\MyApp.rsc"

(comma deleted)

More Languages supported

ariel — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:49:36 +0200

A bit too late, I found out that much more languages are supported in the .PKG file than appear in the documentation. For your convenience, here's the full list:

AF - Afrikaans, SQ - Albanian, AH - Amharic, AR - Arabic, HY - Armenian, AU - Australian, AS - Austrian, BE - Belarussian, BN - Bengali, BG - Bulgarian, MY - Burmese, CA - Catalan, TC - Taiwan Chinese, HK - Hong Kong Chinese, ZH - PRC Chinese, HR - Croatian, CS - Czech, DA - Danish, DU - Dutch, EN - English, AM - American English, CE - Canadian English, IE - International English, SF - South African English, ET - Estonian, FA - Farsi, FI - Finnish, BL - Belgian Flemish, FR - French, BF - Belgian French, CF - Canadian French, IF - International French, SF - Swiss French, GD - Scots Gaelic, KA - Georgian, GE - German, SG - Swiss German, EL - Greek, GU - Gujarati, HE - Hebrew, HI - Hindi, HU - Hungarian, IC - Icelandic, IN - Indonesian, GA - Irish, IT - Italian, SZ - Swiss Italian, JA - Japanese, KN - Kannada, KK - Kazakh, KM - Khmer, KO - Korean, LO - Laothian, LV - Latvian, LT - Lithuanian, MK - Macedonian, MS - Malay, ML - Malayalam, MR - Marathi, MO - Moldovian, MN - Mongolian, NZ - New Zealand, NO - Norwegian, NN - Norwegian Nynorsk, PL - Polish, PO - Portuguese, BP - Brazilian Portuguese, PA - Punjabi, RO - Romanian, RU - Russian, SR - Serbian, SI - Sinhalese, SK - Slovak, SL - Slovenian, SO - Somali, SP - Spanish, OS - International Spanish LS - Latin American Spanish, SW - Swahili, SW - Swedish, FS - Finland Swedish, TL - Tagalog, TA - Tamil, TE - Telugu, TH - Thai, BO - Tibetan, TI - Tigrinya, TU - Turkish, CT - Cyprus Turkish, TK - Turkmen, UK - Ukrainian, UR - Urdu, VI - Vietnamese, CY - Welsh, ZU - Zulu

Ariel

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ariel — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:39:32 +0200

Basically, the 6600 treats differently the language issue. If the device's default language is one of the options for the installation, it will install it automatically. If, however, none of the sis's languages matches the device exactly, the device will give you all the options it supports. For example, in the device I'm currently using, the default language is U.K. English, but if the sis doesn't have UK English, the device accepts _any_ other language, even languages for which it doesn't have fonts.

Your problem, however, stems for what seems to be the sad truth that Eurocom, the representative of Nokia in Israel, is very conservative about the languages is supports. In an application I wrote, for example, I tried to declare the English version as American English by writing AM instead of EN in the .pkg file. Surprisingly, it refused to install on Eurocom's Hebrew 6600 phones, so we had to change it to UK English. if you tried to localize your application to any language other than Hebrew or Arabic, then this is probably the problem you're facing.

hope this helps

Ariel, Giant Steps, Ltd.

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Kibi — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:33:20 +0200

Thanks the article is great.

I did a localization for P800, and it works fine. On installation it gives me a list of languages to install - and whichever I choose works.

However, when localizing my app for 6600 this doesn't work quite the same the phone doesn't offer me the option to choose languages - it just installs the English version automatically. I thought maybe it detects your current language automatically, so I set the phone language to Hebrew (only options are English, Hebrew, Arabic!) - when I do this I get an error

Installer: System Error (-1)

- have you ever seen this? Do you know what it is?

Thanks

Kibi

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ariel — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:09:23 +0200

Symbian has the capability of supporting resources in multiple languages, and letting the user decide which language to use at installation time. This article shows how to support this in your code.