mendhak / waveshare-epaper-display

At-a-glance dashboard for Raspberry Pi with a Waveshare ePaper 7.5 Inch HAT. Date/Time, Weather, Alerts, Google/Outlook Calendar

https://code.mendhak.com/raspberrypi-epaper-dashboard/

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Localization #54

Closed mendhak closed 1 year ago

mendhak commented 1 year ago

VirtualEnv

Move the package installations into a Python virtual environment, instead of a global "sudo pip3 install..." which can be difficult to recover from.

Localization

52 Ongoing work around localization.

The time display.
The date display.
The dates above the calendar entries.
The fonts needed to display characters for that locale.

TODO

[x] Fresh install on Raspberry pi
[x] All the other display layouts
[x] Ability to override the locale
[x] Ability to specify a font

Examples

th_TH

zh_TW

sv_SE

ko_KR

vi_VN

el_GR

mendhak commented 1 year ago

Overall satisfied with the testing. I reformatted the Raspberry Pi twice and followed the instructions. Out of the box it works for most languages.

For Chinese Japanese Korean, it didn't work out of the box. I installed the Noto fonts and it started working right away.

Some languages were too tricky. Sinhala (si_LK) wouldn't work even with Noto Sans Sinhala, because those fonts didn't have English characters, so the native characters appeared fine (day name, AM PM), but the numbers (like 7C, or the time) didn't appear properly. So I think for some languages I'd have to get a dedicated font.