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    • heloisaH
      heloisa @hiulit
      last edited by

      @hiulit Yes! I'm preparing the file with the step by step

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      • heloisaH
        heloisa @hiulit
        last edited by

        @hiulit Done. https://github.com/heloisatech/TranslateES

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        • hiulitH
          hiulit @heloisa
          last edited by

          @heloisa Wow! Thanks!! I'll try it as soon as I can!

          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

            @hiulit You're Welcome. Good luck :)

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            • S
              Shaddonai
              last edited by

              Yes, I AM interested and willing to help. Retropie en español no estaría mal, especialmente para los teclados de LATAM. Poner comandos sin saber dónde hay teclas como - es molesto.

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              • W
                wakaya
                last edited by

                @Flyinghead
                I fixed a few expressions and sent a pull request.
                Please merge when you have time.

                @heloisa
                I'm glad to help you.

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                • K
                  kactius @heloisa
                  last edited by kactius

                  @heloisa
                  Hello.
                  Please can you tell me what is the correct way to notify , about of some improvements to a Spanish translation?
                  Example:
                  NOMBE , correct Word is = NOMBRÉ.
                  I have more suggestions.

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                  • heloisaH
                    heloisa @kactius
                    last edited by heloisa

                    @kactius Hello. Thanks for warning me, typing error. Open pull request on my github, or send me email with the improvements. :)

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                    • hiulitH
                      hiulit
                      last edited by

                      Thanks @heloisa ! It works! :D

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                        I would like to thank @Flyinghead for this fork of EmulationStation and the rest of the people that made localization possible. It's a pity that the RetroPie team doesn't want (that's my understanding) to add this feature to the master branch of RetroPie's EmulationStation fork. It would be really cool.

                        In the meantime, @Flyinghead , could you update your fork to be at the same level as RetroPie's EmulationStation fork? There has been many new features that the people who also want localization are missing.

                        Thanks a lot! :)

                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                          Btw, @heloisa , why do you need to do the step 3 on your documentation?

                          Copy the Locale Directory

                          cp -r locale/lang/fr locale/lang/(Your locale)
                          

                          I didn't use it and I got it working anyway.

                          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                            @hiulit :) Good thing it worked, you're welcome.

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                            • heloisaH
                              heloisa @hiulit
                              last edited by

                              @hiulit I couldn't translate without. I'll try again without step 3. Tks

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                              • hiulitH
                                hiulit
                                last edited by

                                Does anybody know who did the Italian and French translations?

                                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                                  Questions for @Flyinghead :

                                  • Is the .gitignore that I see in some LC_MESSAGES folders necessary?
                                  • Shouldn't we agree on the first part of the *.po file?
                                  msgid ""
                                  msgstr ""
                                  "Project-Id-Version: retropie-emulationstation\n"
                                  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
                                  "POT-Creation-Date: 2019-02-06 10:58+0100\n"
                                  "Last-Translator: hiulit \n"
                                  "Language: ca_ES\n"
                                  "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
                                  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
                                  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
                                  "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
                                  

                                  Is this the correct version? What should/n't be on it?

                                  Thanks!

                                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                                    Updated the README on @Flyinghead 's EmulationStation fork.

                                    Localized EmulationStation

                                    This is a localized fork of Retropie's EmulationStation fork.

                                    Inspired by similar work on the Recalbox fork.

                                    Languages currently supported

                                    • Catalan
                                    • French
                                    • Italian
                                    • Japanese
                                    • Portuguese (Brazilian)
                                    • Spanish

                                    How to use the localized EmulationStation

                                    Resolve dependencies of libraries

                                    sudo apt-get install -y libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-locale-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libeigen3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libasound2-dev cmake libsdl2-dev
                                    

                                    Create a clone from GitHub

                                    cd /home/pi/
                                    git clone --recursive https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation.git
                                    

                                    Compile EmulationStation

                                    cd /home/pi/EmulationStation
                                    mkdir build
                                    cd build
                                    cmake ..
                                    make
                                    

                                    Run EmulationStation

                                    Be aware that your system must be set to the same locale that you want EmulationStation to run on.

                                    cd /home/pi/EmulationStation
                                    LANG=[your_locale].UTF8 ./emulationstation
                                    

                                    Install EmulationStation

                                    cd /home/pi/EmulationStation
                                    sudo cp ./emulationstation /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
                                    sudo cp -r locale /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/
                                    

                                    How to add a translation

                                    You should have, at least, created a clone from GitHub before continuing with the following steps.

                                    Create files for the new locale

                                    cd /home/pi/EmulationStation/locale
                                    mkdir lang/[your_locale]
                                    cp emulationstation2.pot lang/[your_locale]/emulationstation2.po
                                    

                                    Translate the strings

                                    Open the newly created emulationstation2.po inside [your_locale] folder and start translating all the msgstr strings.

                                    Once you are done, you can compile EmulationStation and then run it to test your translations.

                                    Author

                                    flyinghead.

                                    Credits

                                    Thanks to:

                                    • flyinghead - For the French translations.
                                    • heloisa - For the Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish (Spain) translations.
                                    • wakaya - For the Japanese translations and for the instructions on how to use the localized EmulationStation.
                                    • hiulit - For the Catalan and Spanish (Spain) translations.
                                    • Unknown - For the Italian translations.

                                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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

                                      @heloisa Yay! :D

                                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                      • ande.rochaA
                                        ande.rocha Banned
                                        last edited by

                                        @heloisa ou Carmen Sandiego, como preferir... rs
                                        Poderia me ajudar a configurar o ES para o português pt-br também?

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                                        • heloisaH
                                          heloisa @ande.rocha
                                          last edited by

                                          @ande-rocha kkkkk meu jogo favorito. Então, eu fiz o passo a passo. AQUI. Mas se não conseguir, me envie email, está ali no meu GitHub.

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                                          • ClydeC
                                            Clyde
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello everyone,

                                            is anyone working on a German locale already? If not, I would like to give it a try.

                                            Do I just take the emulationstation2.pot and write the translated terms into the corresponding msgstr fields? Where should I put the final file and how should I name it? I already have a Github account if it helps.

                                            Thanks for any advice.

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