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    • FlyingheadF
      Flyinghead
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I took the liberty to do a localisation of EmulationStation based on the Retropie fork. It's available here: https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation
      I took inspiration from the work done in the recalbox fork. It currently supports English and French but other languages can be added with a new message file.

      I used boost::locale for this implementation, although it seems the current trend is to get rid of it.
      It was the easiest and shortest route for me...

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      • darkniorD
        darknior @Flyinghead
        last edited by

        @flyinghead WOAW excellent if it is merged you have released one of my ES dream :p
        I have download and compile it on my PI, replace the file on the directory if i understand fine :

        /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev

        I don't found emulationstation on an other place ...
        Restart my PI, and nothing :(
        I can't found any option in MENU to change ENGLISH to FRENCH to try your work.
        I think i have not replacing the good file or i miss something :(

        I have read your french translation on GIT and it is perfect :)

        Life is game, just play it !

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        • FlyingheadF
          Flyinghead @darknior
          last edited by

          @darknior It uses the current environment language. You can change it systemwide by editing /etc/default/locale:
          LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

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          • darkniorD
            darknior @Flyinghead
            last edited by

            @flyinghead said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

            @darknior It uses the current environment language. You can change it systemwide by editing /etc/default/locale:
            LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

            Thanks a lot.
            It is already in FRENCH, all is in french on my PI lol
            But ES is always in english.
            Where is your emulationstation exe ?
            Maybe i don't change the good one.

            Life is game, just play it !

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            • FlyingheadF
              Flyinghead @darknior
              last edited by

              It should go into /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation but there's a new folder "locale" that must be copied as well.

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              • darkniorD
                darknior @Flyinghead
                last edited by

                @flyinghead Yes i have try it too ...

                /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation
                /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev

                In the two directories because for my part i use the dev version.
                And i create :

                locale/emulationstation2.pot
                locale>lang
                locale>lang>fr
                locale>lang>fr>emulationstation2.po
                locale>lang>fr>LC_MESSAGES>emulationstation2.po

                Two time the file "emulationstation2.po" to be sure ... but same all is always in english for me :(

                Life is game, just play it !

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                • FlyingheadF
                  Flyinghead @darknior
                  last edited by

                  Try to run it directly from the build directory:
                  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation

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                  • darkniorD
                    darknior @Flyinghead
                    last edited by

                    @flyinghead said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                    LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation

                    I try to do it and WOAW it works really fine, so excellent to see ES in french lol

                    After i close it, copy the LOCALE dir from build directory and now it works fine too.
                    Your work is really perfect, i really wish it will be add as official on the Es-DEV git.

                    I think it can ba a good idea to add a langage selection in UI SETTINGS to let the user force what he want. But using linux locale LANG by default is really a good idea :)

                    Will you make a pull request on git ?

                    Life is game, just play it !

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                    • hiulitH
                      hiulit @Flyinghead
                      last edited by

                      @flyinghead How can we add other languages?

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                      • darkniorD
                        darknior @hiulit
                        last edited by darknior

                        @hiulit I tink by adding some new .po files like here https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation/tree/master/locale/lang/fr/LC_MESSAGES

                        And change "fr" to "de", "it", "es", "ru" ...

                        In action :

                        Life is game, just play it !

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                        • FlyingheadF
                          Flyinghead @hiulit
                          last edited by

                          @hiulit @darknior is right: create a new directory for the language, for example locale/lang/de/LC_MESSAGES then create a new emulationstation2.po file in it with the new language. Compile and you're done.

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                          • darkniorD
                            darknior @Flyinghead
                            last edited by

                            @flyinghead said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                            I used boost::locale for this implementation, although it seems the current trend is to get rid of it.

                            Really thanks a lot for it :)
                            But like you write you use BOOST and they try to remove it from ES source code :(
                            Can you found an other solution to be sure your work will be add to the official ES ?
                            Thanks

                            Life is game, just play it !

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                              Doriann
                              last edited by

                              @darknior how to compile your emulationstation in retropie? Please help me, I do not have great knowledge.

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                              • darkniorD
                                darknior @Doriann
                                last edited by

                                @doriann I can't explain all to you, you must know a little linux, git, and ssh.

                                You must connect your PI with SSH.
                                Use PI user, go to /home/pi create a /src/ directory
                                And :

                                git clone --recursive https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation.git
                                cd EmulationStation
                                mkdir src
                                cd src
                                cmake . .
                                make
                                cd ..

                                Launch it with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation
                                Or replace the real one in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation
                                And don't forgot the locale directory.

                                Life is game, just play it !

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                                  Doriann @darknior
                                  last edited by

                                  @darknior thanks for reply. I'll try to change the language and tell you if I can. Who knows later you do not create a step-by-step tutorial. Thank you very much

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                                    nofxman
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi everybody,

                                    Thanks for the tutorial.
                                    I launch the translation with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation
                                    But if I close Putty, ES returns to English.
                                    I did not understand the last step for ES to stay in French.
                                    Can you explain how to fix it?

                                    thank you in advance

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                                    • thelostsoulT
                                      thelostsoul @A12C4
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                                      @a12c4 I am personally not really interested, but I think this is a really good idea and would be good for many players.

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                                      • darkniorD
                                        darknior @nofxman
                                        last edited by

                                        @nofxman You only have to replace the original ES file by the new you have compiled.
                                        And add this directory with french files : /tree/master/locale/lang/fr/LC_MESSAGES

                                        Thanks @Flyinghead to update your fork yesterday ;)

                                        Life is game, just play it !

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                                        • NeoskyriperN
                                          Neoskyriper
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                                          it would be nice to choose the language that you want in emulationstation configurations would be huge

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                                            djuanes
                                            last edited by

                                            hi

                                            Yes, I'm interested and I'm willing to help with Catalan translation.

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