EmulationStation localization (translation)

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.

Leonard Lin

@Hiulit after compiled EmulationStation, found 9 fatal errors (string & duplicate),

I corrected the file (Traditional Chinese)
https://github.com/Leonard-Lin/EmulationStation/blob/master/locale/lang/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/emulationstation2.po

and Run EmulationStation,

cd /home/pi/EmulationStation
LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 ./emulationstation

now EmulationStation V2.8.0RP-DEV can translate into Traditional Chinese correctly.
@Flyinghead can you upgrade localized ? thanks a lot !

Another question, does anyone know how to modify the text and color description of EmulationStation in the red box? I want to add localization information.

hiulit

@Leonard-Lin That's amazing! One more translation for EmulationStation :D

Leonard Lin

One generation plants the trees in whose shade another generation rests, Thanks everyone sharing here :-)

@Hiulit said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

@Leonard-Lin That's amazing! One more translation for EmulationStation :D

hiulit

@Leonard-Lin Btw, it would be better if you create a Pull Request in @Flyinghead Github with your Traditional Chinese translations ;)

hiulit

@BuZz Would you be willing to merge https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation with the master branch of RetroPie's EmulationStation? We have already 8 different languages and we are waiting for another one to come in pretty soon :)

jdrassa

@hiulit In its current state, @Flyinghead's isn't going to be merged into RetroPie. There are a couple of issues that would prevent this.

First, there are other changes unrelated to localization. Those changes, if wanted in RetroPie should be handled separate from the localization. However, I briefly reviewed the commits and there is at least one feature added that we would likely not accept. There is a UI option added for adjusting screen backlight brightness. This is hardware/os specific functionality that we prefer to keep out of ES.

As to the actual localization implementation, it is dependent on the boost library. RetroPie has moved away from using boost. I can't say definitively that boost would not be accepted, but it would be an uphill battle. It would have a better chance of being accepted if boost was not used.

That being said, I have been thinking about this and there are some changes that could be made in RetroPie ES to ease the process maintaining a localized fork for @Flyinghead or anyone else who might choose to do so. We could abstract out the localization and for now support a noop localization implementation, in theory would minimize the changes needed to support localization via boost or some other method. Instead of having to change every file where text is rendered, they would only have to change the localization abstraction.

Of course, doing that requires time, effort and motivation.