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    • hiulitH
      hiulit @Flyinghead
      last edited by

      @flyinghead How can we add other languages?

      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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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 :

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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
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              @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
                      last edited by

                      @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
                          last edited by

                          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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                            • NeoskyriperN
                              Neoskyriper @djuanes
                              last edited by Neoskyriper

                              nice

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                              • A12C4A
                                A12C4 @Neoskyriper
                                last edited by

                                @neoskyriper He is just answering to my original message, which asked if people were interested if I add official localization support to ES.

                                Before you ask anything related, I have nothing to do with the unofficial localization support which were posted some messages ago. Ask the author directly if you want some kind of support.

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                                • FlyingheadF
                                  Flyinghead @A12C4
                                  last edited by

                                  @a12c4 Needless to say, I'm interested in having official localization support in ES, and I'm willing to help.

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                                    HarioH @darknior
                                    last edited by

                                    @darknior said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                                    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

                                    @darknior Hi, i'm stuck as @nofxman , working fine when i manually launch ES with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation
                                    but when i replace emulationstation by my freshly compiled one, i got an error and it won't launch :-(

                                    The error :
                                    lvl0: Error - File type unknown! emulationstation: /src/EmulationStation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:17: Font::FontFace::FontFace(ResourceData&&, int): Assertion `!err' failed. Aborted

                                    Any idea ?
                                    Can't i just script launch "LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation" ?

                                    And a big thank for your job @Flyinghead , i love it ;-)

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @HarioH
                                      last edited by

                                      @harioh said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                                      Can't i just script launch "LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation" ?

                                      You can modify the autostart.sh script and replace the default emulationstation program execution with the line above.

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                                      • FlyingheadF
                                        Flyinghead @HarioH
                                        last edited by

                                        @harioh You also need to copy the entire "resources" directory to /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation

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                                          HarioH
                                          last edited by

                                          @mitu @Flyinghead Perfect, combining you're tips, i got it working ^^

                                          An other question, what if i want to change some word on the translation table ? do i need to re-compile again ?

                                          I tryied to manually change the .po files with no luck

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                                          • FlyingheadF
                                            Flyinghead @HarioH
                                            last edited by Flyinghead

                                            @harioh Excellent! If you want to change some translation, you need to recompile. The .po is compiled into a .mo that's used by the app at runtime.

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