Translate Alchemy!

[Karl DD]

If you prefer your own native tongue or hate English you might like to help out and translate Alchemy - no programming required!
Here's how you do it:

1 - Check the list below to be sure your language is not yet supported.
2 - Check out the English language localisation here
3 - Translate each string of text after the = mark. You can also ignore any lines that start with a # mark as they are just comments indicating the section of the application that the text comes from.
4 - Send it on to [alchemy [at] al [dot] chemy [dot] org] using Unicode UTF-8 encoding or let us know about it by posting back in this thread

Good luck!


EDIT - As of Jan 10, 2010, we have these languages covered:

+ English
+ Japanese
+ Simplified Chinese
+ Traditional Chinese
+ French
+ Dutch
+ German
+ Spanish
+ Polish
+ Farsi (Persian)
+ Russian

Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed!

[Zafio]

Translation

[Karl DD]

Thanks so much for that!
We will be making a Credits page on the main site at some stage so can link up your website as a 'friend of Alchemy' kind of deal

Here is a small taste of the Spanish interface:

AlchemyES.png (76.9 KB) Viewed 3414 times

Thanks again!

[Zafio]

You are welcome! By the way, what about the translation of modules stuff? Just noticed it was missing from the file...

[Karl DD]

Yeah actually, this has yet to be implemented.
Because they are self-contained, the text from the modules themselves would have to be stored in each separate file...

[Zafio]

Let me know once it's ready then :)

[tobias]

Have you looked into gettext for the translation stuff?
I haven't used it for Java programs but it is the but it is the quasi standard for open source programs and there are very nice tools for the translators.

[Karl DD]

Currently the standard java ResourceBundles are used which is functionally pretty identical to gettext I think. But no fancy translation tools that I know of.

The modules are self-contained, so they would need individual language files included in with each plugin, rather than together with the main application.
This is actually pretty easy to do, but I just haven't got around to it yet. But now we have a Spanish as well as Japanese this makes me want to get around to it sooner rather than later!

[Vadi]

Consider using gettext and setting up a Launchpad project for translators.

Launchpad is a web-based interface for translating - it's quite easy to use, and the best part is that it does suggestions for you from other already-translated projects on launchpad (and that's 16mil strings now, they claim. At any rate, any new project that I recommend to register with launchpad gets 30-50% translated just by clicking on the already-translated suggestions). You also get random people that browse lp for projects to translate translate for you

some more info here: https://launchpad.net/+tour/translation

[Karl DD]

Thanks for that! I'll check it out!