Translations

robert · Post by **robert** » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:14 pm

The X# runtime contains string tables that are derived from the original string tables from VO.
These string tables can be found in the folder https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic ... e/Language

The file Generic.resx contains (as the name indicates) the generic string table, which is the English string table.
This table is used when a translation for a specific language is missing.

Other resx files are available for several other languages.

Some of these only contain the day names and month names. Others are more complete.

We are looking for volunteers that help us add missing strings to various language string tables.
If you want to help, follow these steps:
- announce here which language you are going to work on, so we will not duplicate the work
- download Generic.resx
- download Your language.resx
- use an UTF8 editor to edit the entries (VS for example)
- correct existing entries. We may have corrupted some strings when translating from Ansi to Unicode
- compare the two files and locate missing entries. For example all string tables are missing the last 3 entries ERRORDIALOG_TITLE, ERRORDIALOG_CLOSE and ERRORDIALOG_COPY which were added today.
- Copy the relevant section over from Generic.resx and translate the string between <value> and </value>. Please use HTML encoding for special characters such as <, > and & like you can see in the last entry where the ampersand is encoded as &. Make sure that special characters are UTF8 encoded.
- Send us the changed resource file so we can include it in the next build.

Please note that there are some older strings in the table that are not (yet) used in X#. We are planning to cleanup the table in the coming months.

Thanks in advance.

Robert

wriedmann · Post by **wriedmann** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:46 am

Hi Robert,
if needed, I can do Italian and German. Unfortunately I don't speak other languages <g>.

Wolfgang

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:29 am

Hi Robert,

I can do Afrikaans, but alas, I have NEVER seen anybody in SA trying to use an Afrikaans Windows/Office or trying even to code in it... We as a nation basically stick to the English versions of software...

robert · Post by **robert** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:12 am

Johan,

Maybe you can spell check / grammar check the Generic/English version ?

Robert

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:10 am

Wolfgang,
seeing your time-invest in X#, i might take over the german version...

Karl

ic2 · Post by **ic2** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:43 pm

We can do Dutch if you like.

We have a lot of other existing translations which may -partly- be useful. E.g. I see that there are (DOS) errors included - we have those from some other public source.

Questions:
1 When should it be done?
2 What if a language seems to have lots of translations already? E.g. Spanish. Our German, French and Spanish translation tables were originally (wo)men made and later only machine translations.

Dick

Jamal · Post by **Jamal** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:09 pm

Robert,

I can help with Arabic.resx but I do not see it listed. If you wish I can create one if you are not limiting it to the languages listed in your post.

Jamal

robert · Post by **robert** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:10 pm

Jamal,
Having an Arabic translation would be nice. What would be the sort order attached to the translation when running in SetCollation(#Clipper) ?

Robert

robert · Post by **robert** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:12 pm

Dick,
1) The sooner the better. It would be nice if I could include it in the GA release of August
2) If there are missing translations and you have suggestions to add them, please let me know. I think I will ask Fabrice to do the French translations. And for German we already have 2 volunteers, but nobody has offered to do the Spanish translation yet.

Robert

orangesocks · Post by **orangesocks** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:33 pm

Hi,
if you need help with the italian translation count me in.
Regards
Giuseppe

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