[Bf-committers] Localization

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Dave,

Would you (or maybe someone else?) like to make a good intro text for  
on our website?
This text is all we have now;
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Internationalisation_HOWTO.389.0.html

If you mail it, I can put this online. Would be great :)

-Ton-


On 24 Nov, 2004, at 15:54, Dave Stone wrote:

> Hi Enzo,
>
> I took this on some months ago, and after a fairly enthusiastic  
> beginning ran into a lot of apathy from the translators. Which is  
> apparently what happened to the previous person who took it on (that  
> and I ended up in the hospital for a while).
>
> It's a fairly straightforward process to translate. There's are  
> language files, one for each language. There is a 'msgid' line with  
> the text in English followed by a 'msgstr' line with the translated  
> text. All you need to do is to take one of the language files and  
> replace the non-English text with your non-English text. After that it  
> gets compiled and placed into a language specific directory. When you  
> switch languages in Blender it causes Blender to look for the language  
> file in that particular directory.
>
> I have the language files on my website, or you can get them from the  
> Blender CVS directory. I suggest starting with the Russian or Italian  
> files. They are more complete than any of the others (unless someone's  
> been doing a lot of work with another one) and the Russian file is  
> very well organized.
>
> Files are of the name XX.po, where 'XX' is the two letter country  
> code. For Russian this would be 'ru.po', and Italian is 'it.po'. You  
> can edit these with any text editor, but I suggest searching the web  
> for a copy of POEDIT. This is an application for editing .po files and  
> also runs the compiler (note: you may have to download the compiler  
> separately). The files need to be compiled into a file called  
> 'blender.mo' and placed into the .blender/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES  
> directory, where 'XX' is the same two letter abbreviation.
>
> The Russian file has 4145 message IDs for Blender 2.33. Hopefully  
> someone has at least updated the English language file to have all of  
> the new text strings as well. However, the default is that if an  
> translation file doesn't exist, or if the text to be translated can't  
> be found in the translation file then the English text is displayed,  
> so it's easy to forget to update the language files if you speak  
> English.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave S.
>
> At 07:32 AM 11/24/2004, you wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just subscribed to the list to get some info on localization of
>> Blender (am I in the right place?)
>>
>> What's the status on localizing Blender? Are systems in place to allow
>> localization? Is there a management team?
>>
>> How many strings are involved, what format the relevant files, and
>> where does one start??
>>
>>
>>
>> Any relevant info greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Enzo
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