EmulationStation localization (translation)

Clyde

@Flyinghead Thank you very much! I got very confused with the Github naming scheme: pull request, head repo, base repo, master branch … you just can't guess what they mean, you'll have to know it.

I'll add your post to my bookmark archive for future reference.

@hiulit Thanks, it's the first version, though, which I hacked together in one 2-hour session, and I already found some errors in it. I'll revise it as soon as I can. I'd also appreciate it if some German speakers would look over it.

darknior

Really excellent to see that this fork is alive with all these cool translations :)
@Flyinghead will you make an new update from the official master branch ?

kactius

@hiulit @heloisa
I discovered a new improvement, is possible add icons to the text translate.
But I don't know what icons are really valid.

For example:

Flyinghead

@darknior I'm currently traveling so I won't be able to update from master until a week or so.

hiulit

@Flyinghead Thanks! That good be great :)

hiulit

@kactius That's really cool! Maybe you could ask the RetroPie team if they are interested in adding this feature in them main EmulationStation repository

hiulit

There's a guy in https://www.reddit.com/r/retropie who is doing the Norwegian translations :D (I posted the project there to see if more people wanted to help and it seems to be working already!)

heloisa

@kactius Wow! Can you do step-by-step how do it? Tks

hiulit

@heloisa Yes, please! Thanks

kactius

@heloisa
Is easy only:

msgid "OTHER SETTINGS"
msgstr "⚙️OTRAS CONFIGURACIONES"

msgid "CONFIGURE INPUT"
msgstr "⌨️CONFIGURAR CONTROLES(MAPEADO)"

heloisa

@kactius Tks :) Really cool. I'm going to test here, with other icons too.

darknior

Excellent idea, How do you do for icons ? They are in the font ??

hiulit

@darknior I think they are emojis https://emojipedia.org/ Am I right @kactius ?

kactius

@hiulit @heloisa @darknior

Yes they are emojis, those two were copied from Telegram client.
I tried paste many more without success.
I also think it's related to the font file, but I do not know what is the font file.

hiulit

@Flyinghead any news on updating EmulationStation from the master branch?

Leonard Lin

@Flyinghead I add traditional chinese translation (zh_TW) file.
https://github.com/Leonard-Lin/EmulationStation/blob/master/locale/lang/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.po

darknior

@hiulit said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

@Flyinghead any news on updating EmulationStation from the master branch?

Yep if possible please when you have some free time :)
They've finally fixed the video image resize bug i reported last year ...
Thanks

hiulit

We could also try to "pressure" the RetroPie team to bring localization to main EmulationStation repository https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21328/bring-localization-to-emulationstation

Leonard Lin

Hello.
I translated the translation into Traditional Chinese,
https://github.com/Leonard-Lin/EmulationStation/blob/master/locale/lang/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.po
compiled & run ES, LANG=zh-TW.UTF-8 ./emulationstation,
but EmulationStation V2.8.0RP-DEV it won't launch :-( ,
I don't understand why returns to English,
Can someone help me? Thank you in advance!

hiulit

@Leonard-Lin Did you follow these steps? https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation#how-to-use-the-localized-emulationstation

When you have compiled EmulationStation, you have to:

cd /home/pi/EmulationStation # Or the path to your compiled EmulationStation
LANG=[your_locale].UTF8 ./emulationstation

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