Non-English Speakers Wanted

[weltall]

Good start! A question: Do you think it's possible to incorporate complex script languages like Hindi? It's spoken by almost a billion people, about 15% of world population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi
A sample keyboard layout, I don't know if it helps; http://www.aksharamala.com/help/chm/Input%20Schemes/KBD/Devanagari/hindi.html

utf8 should be supported by crystal space but our font doesn't have such characters as far as i know

[Caarrie]

@ Caarrie:

What means "SL", where in the whole PS GUI can I find that?
What would I "Unclaim"?
Is "Hostility" related to MOBs or to landscape areas?
What means the "H" in "H:", what means the "Z" in "Z:"?

And so on...

Remember, some translators may never have seen e.g. a GM dialog or an effect editor dialog.

you can _always_ open up all the gui xml files and look at them for what they do you would unclaim a petition and H is for hours and i have no idea what Z is for. most likely if you have not seen it then it might be ok to not translate it

[silverstein]

Thought I do not actualy play PS (only read forums) I'm considering a translation to Catalan, the amount of phrases is no too big... but is an idea only that can change tomorrow.

[Vengeance]

The more languages the better as far as I'm concerned, whether Catalan or Leetspeak.  I do not think we currently support asian languages though, nor do we support languages that write from right to left or vertically.

Please keep building them up on the wiki and the week before the next release we'll ask everyone to bless them and make sure they are "final".

Thanks for your support.

[silverstein]

DONE! Catalan. I now just only need a GM acount to test de properness of it all

[LigH]

Chances are good that we have testers who may understand Catalan too...
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I remember from my good old days as DVD Authorer, that there is an important difference between "spanish" and "catalan" - possibly similar to "chinese" and "mandarin"/"cantonese"... Is that much more than just a dialect, maybe like "Platt" or rather like "Sorbian" in Germany? I see it being registered as own language.

[silverstein]

Portuguese is closer to Spanish than Catalan. But that's not the key point, of course all latin languages ressemble, I speak french and spanish and one can  (with a little previous practice) undestand italian and portuguese (and romanian I suppose) without a great effort. I think the same happens with germanic languages, the learning curve is easier for one of these languages if you know well another. Anyway Catalan is a dialect from Latin, like Spanish and others.

Grettings

[Allaann]

Hello all ..
i`m working on the romanian page. romanian speakers can help out a bit.
http://pswiki.xordan.com/index.php/Romanian 

i have finished the Romanian translation of GUI. If are any Romanian players here please help me to correct the eventually mistakes.

[Aerig]

Long time since I have logged in here, so hi again PS


As I was reading this it occurred to me that the approach you are taking is possibly a lot slower than could be taken ...


A very simple PHP program could have a database of all the strings used as they are in English and present any user with the option to add a translation andor verify an existing translation.

By keeping track of how many people verify a particular translation, 'super' users in each language could be presented with a frequency sorted list of translations suggested by the population at large.

The 'super' user could select the translation that they felt was most appropriate and that person could be saved a lot of time typing.

Additionally, when new words or phrases are added, they andor currently untranslated phrases could be presented first to people willing to help, so that the database becomes rapidly populated.

But .. the real advantage would be that language specific XML files could then be auto-generated from the database tables, eliminating the high likelihood of typos.

[citizen]

To what address are we supposed to email help.xml files?

[Caarrie]

To what address are we supposed to email help.xml files?

you can add them to pswiki and a dev will put them in svn.

[Vengeance]

Hi everyone,

I will start adding these to our official codebase but I would like for people to go to the wiki, review the language they know (if any) and write a note at the top of the page for that language like "I have reviewed and approve the translations below.  -Vengeance".  Sign it with your name and when we have about 5 people approving a particular language, I'll add it.

Thanks!

[Caarrie]

"I have reviewed and approve the translations below.  -Vengeance". 

an easy way to add this line to your language page you have reviewed put the following in the page, NOTE this will add your name to the page and everything venge asked for, just register and go use it

Code: [Select]

{{subst:Approve}}

for those that DISAPPROVE of a translation you can use

Code: [Select]

{{subst:disapprove}}


[weltall]

I'd like to add that you might be interested to check for changes to the italian language (just because it's the one I'm personally updating so it's more updated from the others) because there were some additions from when the first template was posted: http://planeshift.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/planeshift/trunk/lang/italian/stringtable.xml?revision=3026&view=markup you can check also for diff from there.
I will remake the sed script i did last time as I've lost it and update the basic template soon so check it out

[nightwolf]

Links don't work for me (