Shoutbox

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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So, If you are interested in translating Plus! into your own language and making Plus! more accesable for your language's people by that, then post a reply right here, or mail me directly at msgpluforum@xs4all.nl and tell me into which language you could translate Plus. Also don't hesitate if you have questions.

We are searching people which can translate in one of the following languages (same languages as MSN is distubuted in):

Arabic, Brazilian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish or Turkish

Please keep in mind that the language you want to translate in should be your primary language which you speak and write at home, and that you should be able to manage correct spelling.

I posted this only to see if there are enough people around willing to translate, no actual translating is done yet until Patchou finished 2.0.

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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You've gotta do a geordie version!! That would be funny...

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.