printing broken on WinXP

[Olly Betts]

> >     For MS Windows NT4, 2000, and XP, you should proceed
> > as follows (this description is written from MS Windows
> > 2000 - it should be similar on NT4 and XP): [...]
> 
> Hmm, this bit didn't help much - given that it's a Chinese version of
> Windows and I don't read Chinese very well...

Oops, should have thought!

Another workaround is to find zh.msg in the Survex application
directory and delete (or rename) it.

> Something else entirely (I'm sure Erin was very tired!).  It's the final
> confirmation of the scale that's the problem, the final few lines of
> output look vaguely like this,
> 
> Using scale 1:500
> This will need 6 pages (3x2).
>  Continue prcore.c:377: assert(*szReplies) failed - list of possible replies is empty

OK, that's a lot more helpful.  The problem is I've supplied
translations for "yes", "no", "quit" into Chinese, but they don't have
initial letters!

> PS - have you got someone in mind to do the Chinese translation or should
> we be looking for someone?

Mr Cai (no longer at the institute - he's at a uni in Germany now) was
interested in helping, but I've not spoken to him about it since I was
in China, and somebody who you can talk to about it might be more
useful.  Even if their English is excellent, some explaining is likely
to be required.  I think Erin mentioned someone was interested but I
forget who.

Dunks suggested a version using the latin alphabet transliterations as
a first step to problems with character sets and fonts.  Unicode is a
problem on Linux until we switch to gtk2 (hopefully soon).

I added a few chinese messages as an experiment, culled from other Linux
apps (which unfortunately caused this problem with printing).

If you have a spare few minutes, could you have a quick look to see if
they work on windows 2k and 98?  That should show if the character set
handling is good enough for Chinese yet or not.  They are:

"warning" in output from cavern - this file should produce a warning:

 *begin a
 1 2 1 0 0
 *end

"Done." at the end of a cavern run

"Page %d of %d" on printouts (hard to test that one as the printer
drivers don't work with zh.msg...)

"yes" and "no" in responses to questions in printer driver (may be hard to
test too)

"Close" button in the "Help->About..." box in aven

"Find" and "Hide" buttons in the left panel in aven

Cheers,
    Olly