[jsword-devel] multilingual version

[DM Smith]

Daniel,
	That would be greatly appreciated! Manfred has started with the  
menus and I have done the names of the books of the Bible (I know a  
tiny bit of German). Basically, if we have prepared the application  
for internationalization properly (and we hope we have) then it is a  
matter of translating the various property files. The default  
obviously is English.

	To create a german translation you would create a copy of the  
xyz.properties file and name it xyz_de.properties. Then you would  
translate the stuff on the right of the = sign.
	The two files we have done so far are:
		org.crosswire.bibledesktop.desktop.Desktop_de.properties (Still a  
few more strings to translate)
		org.crosswire.jsword.versification.BibleNames_de.properties

Perhaps the easiest way to get started is to translate a file and put  
it into your ~/.jsword directory. BibleDesktop looks there for  
overrides.
Just copy the file you want to work on, say SectionNames..properties  
and name it  
org.crosswire.jsword.versification.SectionNames_de.properties.
Change the file from English to German.

You will need to restart the application to see your changes.

There are two kinds of property files. Msg.properties, which mostly  
contains error messages. Since most errors are uncommon they can be  
translated later. Sometimes they contain general messages. These  
appear frequently and would need to be translated. There is no  
indication as to which is which, but if you find where they are used,  
it is pretty easy to tell.

The other kind of property files defines buttons, menu choices and  
other actionable items. These generally are in a file whose name is  
that of the class that uses it. There is a name field which is the  
text of the button/menu choice/etc, a short description and a long  
description (which are used for tooltips) There are also mnemonics  
and accelerators which should be changed to what's appropriate for a  
German application.

When you have something ready, let us know and we'll discuss the best  
way to submit the change.

If you have any questions, please post to jsword-devel, you should  
have been added by now.

In His Service,
	DM

On Oct 28, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Daniel Kellenberger wrote:

> hello together!
>
> have you ever thought about a multilingual version? if you plan to  
> do one,
> i'll do the german translation for you.
>
> greetings, daniel
>
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