i18n support and Japanese translation

[japonophile]

Added i18n initialization and implemented Japanese translation for kano-apps.
The UI is correctly displayed in Japanese, but each app description (fetched from .app files) is still in English only.

[alex5imon]

😍

[Ealdwulf]

Just to let you know that we haven't forgotten about these - This one looks pretty safe to me. However when I tried it nothing came up in Japanese (I know the descriptions don't, but I didn't find any Japanese). It's probably something trivial, I'll have another look soon.

[japonophile]

Great to hear back from you!

Here are the quick steps I follow to "japanify" my Kano:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Choose:
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 (*)

$ apt-get install ttf-kochi-gothic xfonts-intl-japanese xfonts-intl-japanese-big xfonts-kaname

I guess you may have missed that last step.
If the proper fonts are not available, you won't see anything.

[japonophile]

Another thing I noticed, if you are installing kano-apps through setup.py, is that it will not copy the kano-apps script at the correct location. To test on my Kano, I just manually copied kano-apps to /usr/bin.

[Ealdwulf]

Thanks @japonophile . The problem I was having was that the debian/install file was missing the po files: c44fd06
With that fixed it displays the Japanese fine. We are doing a release right now, should be able to merge this afterwards.

[Ealdwulf]

There is a problem here, in that os.system expects ordinary strings, so we need to do os.system(cmd.encode('utf8')) below, and similarly elsewhere in this file. I've made this change locally.

[Ealdwulf]

Hi @japonophile , I'm going to formally close this one, but actually I've opened a new one which incorporates your commits here: #77
Thanks!