Howto:Translate FlightGear

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Introduction

This is a how-to that explains translating FlightGear's menus and messages to your language.

Flightgear has bad I18N (internationalization) support. More information here : http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05761.html

WARNING : You can only use ASCII characters for translating strings in your language.

The How to

1) You need to have flightgear installed on your computer For example : Flightgear on Windows is in the directory : C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0

Strings to translate are between the XML tags <label> and <legend>.

2) You need to translate the english strings in the xml file C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\gui\menubar.xml For exemple, in the file menubar.xml, the english text string <label>Save</label> will become <label>Sauvegarder</label> in french

3) You need to translate the english strings in the xml files that are in the directory C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\gui\dialogs

4a)Create a copy of the file C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations\strings-default.xml in the directory C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations

4b)Rename the copy of the file strings-default.xml with a new name like strings-language_code.xml where language_code is the international code for your language. For example , fr for french or de for german.

5)Translate all the english text strings in your strings-language_code.xml file in your language.

6) Edit the file C:\Program Files\FlightGear-1.0.0\data\Translations\locale.xml 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>