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===<font color="red">This feature appears to be broken with recent versions of FlightGear.</font>===
This howto explains '''translating [[FlightGear]]''''s menus and messages to your language.  


This howto explains translating [[FlightGear]]'s menus and messages to your language.
The language option was broken in FlightGear 2.4.0 and 2.6.0. Menu translations are only supported as of 2.7.0 and later.


Flightgear has bad I18N (internationalization) support. More information at: http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05761.html
# Check whether your language already has a subdirectory under <tt>[[$FG_ROOT]]/translations/</tt>. The two letter language code can be obtained from the [http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php ISO 639 list]. If it does exist, skip to step 2, else do the following:
## Create an empty directory with your language's code.
## Copy the <tt>[[$FG_ROOT]]/translations/en/menu.xml</tt> and  <tt>[[$FG_ROOT]]/translations/en/options.xml</tt> file to the directory of your language.
# Translate the English strings in your language's xml files. '''Do not''' translate the filenames!
# Edit the file <tt>[[$FG_ROOT]]/Translations/locale.xml</tt> and add the section for your language.
# Start FlightGear with <code>--lang=your code</code> (can be set via <tt>Advanced > General</tt>, when using [[FGRun]]).


'''WARNING:''' You can only use [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Standard_Code_for_Information_Interchange&section=5#ASCII_printable_characters ASCII] characters for translating strings in your language.
=== Notes ===
 
* '''WARNING:''' You can only use [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Standard_Code_for_Information_Interchange&section=5#ASCII_printable_characters ASCII] characters for translating strings in your language.
== The How to ==
* FlightGear has bad I18N (internationalization) support. More information at: http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05761.html
# You need to have FlightGear installed on your computer of course. For example: FlightGear on Windows is in the directory: <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0</tt>. Strings to translate are between the XML tags <label> and <legend>.
# You need to translate the english strings in the xml file <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\gui\menubar.xml</tt>. For example, in the file <tt>menubar.xml</tt>, the english text string <tt><label>Save</label></tt> will become <tt><label>Sauvegarder</label></tt> in French.
# You need to translate the english strings in the xml files that are in the directory <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\gui\dialogs</tt>
#* Create a copy of the file <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations\strings-default.xml</tt> in the directory <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations</tt>.
#* Rename the copy of the file <tt>strings-default.xml</tt> with a new name like <tt>strings-language_code.xml</tt> where <tt>language_code</tt> is the international code for your language. For example, fr for french or de for German.
# Translate all the English text strings in your strings-language_code.xml file in your language.
# Edit the file <tt>C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations\locale.xml</tt> and add the section for your language:
 
<locale>
<lang type="string">language_code</lang>
<lang type="string">language_code.character_set</lang>
<strings>Translations/strings-language_code.xml</strings>
</locale>
 
For example, in german, you have this :
<locale>
<lang type="string">de</lang>
<lang type="string">de_AT</lang>
<lang type="string">de_CH</lang>
<lang type="string">de_AT.ISO8859-15</lang>
<lang type="string">de_DE.ISO8859-15</lang>
<lang type="string">de_CH.ISO8859-15</lang>
<strings>Translations/strings-de.xml</strings>
</locale>


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Revision as of 12:57, 6 May 2012

This howto explains translating FlightGear's menus and messages to your language.

The language option was broken in FlightGear 2.4.0 and 2.6.0. Menu translations are only supported as of 2.7.0 and later.

  1. Check whether your language already has a subdirectory under $FG_ROOT/translations/. The two letter language code can be obtained from the ISO 639 list. If it does exist, skip to step 2, else do the following:
    1. Create an empty directory with your language's code.
    2. Copy the $FG_ROOT/translations/en/menu.xml and $FG_ROOT/translations/en/options.xml file to the directory of your language.
  2. Translate the English strings in your language's xml files. Do not translate the filenames!
  3. Edit the file $FG_ROOT/Translations/locale.xml and add the section for your language.
  4. Start FlightGear with --lang=your code (can be set via Advanced > General, when using FGRun).

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