[#VWR-6608] Cannot render non-latin characters in the "Joystick Monitor" due to use of an SL monospace font

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Cannot render non-latin characters in the "Joystick Monitor" due to use of an SL monospace font

Created: 16/Apr/08 08:58 AM Updated: 19/Mar/09 11:25 PM

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Component/s:

Internationalization, User Interface

Affects Version/s:

1.20 Release Candidate

Fix Version/s:

1.20

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Second Life 1.20.1 (84760) Apr 15 2008 12:13:49 (Second Life Release Candidate)

CPU: AMD (Unknown model) (2412 MHz)
Memory: 3072 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL Version: 2.1.2
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.14465 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.13_0000000000)

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This issue Relates to:

~~VWR-3857~~ Script (LSL) editor shows non Latin 1 characters as square boxes

VWR-6363 Meta-issue: Joystick Support / NDOF devices / Space Navigator (patch needed)

This issue is related to by:

VWR-6607 Japanese UI translation is out of date.

~~VWR-7807~~ Space Navigator, Joystick, 3DConnex issues

Linden Lab Issue ID:

DEV-14421

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On the "Joystick Configuration" window accessible through Edit > Preferences... > Input & Camera > Joystick Setup, there is a rectangular area titled "Joystick Monitor". The title text "Joystick Monitor" and labels "Axis 0", "Axis 1", ... are human readalble text, so they should be translated into user's language. However, it is not possible to do so if the user's preferred language requires non Latin letters. It is because the texts are drawn using a monospace font, the font selection is hardcoded in the viewer source program but XUI files, and the SL monospace font contains Latin letters only.

At least Japanese, Chinese, and Korean translations are affected by this issue.

I see two options to fix this issue.

(1) Stop using monospace font and use sans-serif to draw these labels.
(2) Apply the patch "20071217.patch" attached to ~~VWR-3857~~ so that monospace font covers all SL supported scripts.

I prefer the fix (2) above, since I want to fix ~~VWR-3857~~ anyway...

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Ramzi Linden added a comment - 25/Apr/08 05:43 PM

Changing the summary slightly,
(was: Translation of "Joystick Monitor" into some languages is impossible due to a bad UI design)

because the problem in not that translation is impossible /per se/ (the strings do exist in XUI files) but rather that the viewer cannot render them, making the translations useless.

In 1.20 RC5, the translations into Japanese and Korean will ship and be rendered improperly, as you predicted Alissa. If we do not solve this issue by RC6, perhaps we should revert the Japanese/Korean translations of "Axis 1", "Axis 2", etc back into English so that they are at least human readable in this monitor in version 1.20.

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Ramzi Linden added a comment - 24/Sep/08 09:51 AM

This was actually fixed in the latest version of the 1.20.15 viewer-- the font will now support non-latin characters.
However the translations are removed in the 1.20 viewer.

We will be returning the Japanese, Korean translations in the 1.21 viewer.

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Alissa Sabre added a comment - 19/Mar/09 11:25 PM

I confirmed that the 1.22.11 viewer contains a fix to this issue in a cleaner way. (I didn't checked 1.21.6 viewer...)

Thank you for the fix.