It's official, as Patchou said: Multi-Language Support is comming in Plus! 2.00. So we will all be able to view Plus! in our own language in the next version of Plus.

But, if we want to do that we need people which can translate all the texts that are in Plus! to his own langauge.
So... International Plus users, we need your help!

All you we ask you to do is just translating pure text into one of the languages below, you won't have to code or have understanding of developing software or any... just plain translating.

Patchou explains how it works:

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Basically, all you'll have to do is request the file to translate, it's like a big txt file... when it's done, you send it back to me and it's part of the software! of course, we won't do that before the final version is ready to be released, you don't want to translate the same stuff again and again right?  ... also, when you versions will be released, I'll send you only the differences between the two versions so that you don't have to translate it again.

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chrono will do one also i got a German mate i see if he will translate that if you like.

Do you need any other languages other than that?

i know filipino(Tagalog) i can translate perfectly Philippines Official Language

How about geordie?

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Originally posted by Johnny_Mac
How about geordie?  

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How is Patchou going to implement the multilanguage thing?

From my experience with both PhatSkinner and Msg++ and reading of the GNU GetText sources I have found that if you let users modify the translations on their machine then it is a lot easier for the translators. If it reads the translations from a file then people could add funny translations, while if they were hard-coded into the program it becomes more of an issue because every translation takes up space in the program.

Just curious

From what i undetstood from Patchou's post somewhere in the "i'm alive" topic it will be hard-coded. Not sure tough

I would strongly recommend against that, as it creates more work for Patchou, more work for the translators, and makes the code less readable (if he's going to do it the way I think he is), and hampers "fun" languages (I don't want a 2Gb DLL with 2000 fun languages, but I wouldn't mind giving Geordie a try, I've already used the Geordie Windoze simulator )

Would it be useful to have a forum for the deep technical issues in Plus! ? Maybe so Patchou can request help on Plus!, and help it along quicker.

I have told mess.be so hopefully some people will coem to here and tell us if ytehy can transalte it.

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Originally posted by jaber
i know filipino(Tagalog) i can translate perfectly Philippines Official Language

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I'm a fanatic of Quick Text features. (Alt 1~9)

If I can be a help to you, I would be happy

Yeah there is a Korean version of MSN messenger and it would be nice if Plus! is also localized to Korean.

(Guess what country I'm living now..)

burabura, i added you to the list. You, as well as all the other translators which applied will be recieving a mail whitin the next 48 hours with all the details you'll need to know.

I've already used the Geordie Windoze simulator )

where did u get the simulator i think it would be funny to give to some one wot the webpage for it and the system requrements

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Originally posted by reisyboy
chrono will do one

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Okay, first of all, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST IN TRANSLATING PLUS!
I just went trough all the submitions i've got for translating Plus! and mailed everybody back as much as i could. Some statics:

People that are willing to translate:198
(I think it's actually something like 215, but i acedently deleted a few )

Languages which we found translators for:
Arabic
Chinese simplified
Chinese traditional
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

And some people were asking me if we also supported other languages, i asked Patchou and he thinks that's fine. So, languages not listed we found translators for:
Catalan
Hindi
Tagalog
Icelandic

Some languages seem to have alot of people. To keep everything clear and easy we will not accept more then 10 persons for one language. This team of maximum 10 can translate one language together. If we have more then 10 people for a language, we will not accept new transltors. Languages which we do not accept new submittions for anymore:
Dutch
French
Spanish

Even tough we already recieved 200 mails, we are still missing some languages that we listed. Languages we still need:
Czech
Hebrew
Hungarian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian


Thank you all for your enourmous support, i know Patchou apreciates it very very much. If you're reading this, and you would like to translate Plus yourself, we are especially looking for people which can translate into Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and any other language that was NOT listed in the first post of this topic.
Translators for other listed languages are still welcome to support the translators we already found, as long as it's not Dutch, Franch or Spanish.

Errrr It will be hard to translate with other people... how will we do it ?

Well, as you probaly saw i your mailbox... one person is the main translator (your''re the one for Spanish). The main translator is the one who will actually get the languagefile, together wit a list of email/MSN adresses of people who applied for the same language as you. You're the one that decides wether you translate the whole thing yourself, and after that let those people show it so they can correct errors.
OR you dicide to chop the languagefile in pieces and give a little part to translate to everybody on that list. As long as you send back a correctly translated file at the end. Ok?

CAN I DO A BRUMMIE VERSION

What about Canadian eh?? Heh heh.

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Originally posted by Jae_x777
(I think it's actually something like 215, but i acedently deleted a few )

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Originally posted by reisyboy
CAN I DO A BRUMMIE VERSION

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hey, I didn't saw this topic before. Canadian? lol, yeah of course... I'll also add Al Bhed and Hut to the list (the first being able to tell me where those two languages com from wins a prize  )

Now... Ginge Ginge Ginge.... if you were more near to me, I would ask you to join me in the MP2 coding . To answer to your question, lol, OF COURSE I won't hard code 20 LANGUAGES in my source!!!!! are you sick?!?! 

The text file I'll send to translators are simply resource files containg a string table where my software will go to pick it's string. So, in fact, absolutly no text, even english, will be in the code. All these string tables will be compiled in one unique DLL file distributed with all versions of Plus!.... anyway, the setup is compressed and this is text... I hope you won't matter an increase of 10 or 20Kb to add a support for all our pals around the world

Patchou.

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Originally posted by Patchou
I'll also add Al Bhed and Hut to the list (the first being able to tell me where those two languages com from wins a prize  )

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Understood Jae

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Originally posted by Jae_x777
(your''re the one for Spanish).

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If I am not mistaken, Al ?Bhed is the language that those people in FFX speak, you collect cyrstal thingys and you are able to learn and understand their language.


Hut, isn't that from previous FF games?


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Blitz ball is cool , the jeht shot looks very cool aswell

Yep, Al Behd was from Final Fantasy... Hut, well, by itself it was too difficult... Jabba the Hut maybe would help you more

Well then 

Star wars then 


I was thinking that, but quickly dismissed it because it seemed to obvious 

I wil be happy 2 transulate Some lines in 2 my own language, Dutch.
If U send me some text I will change it into "Nederlands" and send it back 2 U.

Down worry  my Dutch isn't so bad as my English.

Give me a mail (my-life@wanadoo.nl)