EmulationStation localization (translation)

Clyde

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.

wakaya

@hiulit

You should ask me questions, because I'm the author of this explanation, may be.

This explanation is just for "adding a new locale".
It does not explain how to compile from an existing source tree.
Therefore, I think that step 3 is an essential method to simply add a locale.

In addition, I found out that your document contains old information.
"sudo apt-get install libboost1.62-*"
It is unnecessary.

The latest commentary is always updated with https://pastebin.com/edit/L3MyFkeD.
Because the information has not been confirmed at this time.

I am writing a document on pastebin because there is a possibility of future modification.
I think that writing a "well formatted document" on a place like a forum may cause misunderstanding.

wakaya

@Clyde

Hello:-)
I wrote a brief comment on "https://pastebin.com/edit/L3MyFkeD"
You should replace (your locale) with "de_DE" or similar locale.

The way of editing just fills msgstr with German as you assumed.
Since you already have a github account, you should send a pull request to flyinghead after your editing.

hiulit

@wakaya Sorry, I thought it was a text from @heloisa . I took it from here https://github.com/heloisatech/Translate-EmulationStation/wiki/Translate-EmulationStation-on-RetroPie

Anyway, I will credit you in the README.

Apart from that, I will remove sudo apt-get install libboost1.62-*. Thanks.

Also I would like to point out, regarding cp -r locale/lang/fr locale/lang/(Your locale) that I think it would be better to start from emulationstation2.pot, create the necessary folders and then edit the resulting emulationstation2.po.

BTW, I can't see your pastebin. It tells me to login.

hiulit

@Clyde Yeah, you should create a folder inside lang with your locale, in this case de_DE. Inside this folder create a LC_MESSAGES folder and then copy emulationstation2.pot in it, changing the extension to .po.

hiulit

@heloisa I tweaked a little bit your Spanish translations, I hope you don't mind. I wanted to ask you, what kind of Spanish were you targeting? Meaning, Spanish from Spain or from a central/south America country? Because my changes were targeted to Spanish from Spain.

Anyway, in any case, the locale must be specified. If it's Spanish from Spain, then it should be es_ES.

Here's a list of all the locales https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3191664/list-of-all-locales-and-their-short-codes

hiulit

I would like to ask the room, but especially @Flyinghead , as the author and maintainer , why are we using underscore for the locales? I've found that the "standard" seems to be to use a dash.

es_ES -> es-ES.

Should we change it?

EDIT:

It's settled. Linux uses underscore. We are fine then :)

Clyde

@wakaya @hiulit Thank you for the advice, I'll look into it until next weekend, when I will have the time.

@hiulit said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

I would like to ask the room, but especially @Flyinghead , as he is the author and maintainer , why are we using underscore for the locales? I've found that the "standard" seems to be to use a dash.

Which standard? Linux for example uses the underscore for its locales.

hiulit

@Clyde You are welcome! I'll try to update de README with instructions on how to translate.

About the locale "issue", it's settled then! If Linux uses underscore, that's it. :)

heloisa

@hiulit I said that I followed the step by step that the @wakaya taught, here in the forum. I'm just repassing so everyone can translate. Tks :)

heloisa

@wakaya The credits are yours, thanks again.

heloisa

@hiulit Some people are collaborating with the translation. So I do not know if all the mistakes are mine. Spanish is from Spain. But you can fix it without problems. I don't know much use github, can you change the location to es_ES? Thank you

hiulit

@heloisa Understood :)

hiulit

@heloisa Ok, then I'll take a better look at the Spanish translations and I'll add the es_ES;)

heloisa

@hiulit Ok. Thanks :) @kactius made translation fixes a few days ago.

Dereck101

@heloisa Hi! You are amazing! Thanks for take the time of translate in a language that is very complicated for yours orthographic rules.I will test it coming soon.

heloisa

@Dereck101 :) Very good. I'm happy to help you. @hiulit and @kactius also helped correct translation errors. If have any errors, let me know. Tks

heloisa

@Dereck101 Step by Step to translate is HERE

A Former User

do you guys still need french translation?

heloisa

@itskryode Already done by @Flyinghead
Tks :)