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    • M
      Matbog
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      @a12c4 said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

      Yes, I'm interested and I'm willing to help with translations

      For Italian.

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      • A12C4A
        A12C4
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        @BuZz So what is your final opinion on this feature ? People look interested so I wonder if I can start working on it.

        Grid view wiki

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        • darkniorD
          darknior
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          Yes please make it ...
          For the moment i must trick and translate my skin to have a FRENCH ES, but it is impossible for the menu :(

          0_1517173611975_RVGM Skin PSX.jpg
          0_1517173618823_RVGM Skin SNES.jpg

          I also work a lot on the Webtropie project.
          Now this excellent program is 100% US and FR and near finished for the version 1.0
          Like for it you can be sure i will help you here ;)

          0_1517173850700_skin.jpg

          Life is game, just play it !

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          • ?
            A Former User
            last edited by

            I'd help, but I don't know many languages. I'm learning french right now, but I don't think it would help me out. The other languages are some indian languages that I can't read or write at all, but can speak. I can ask some people to help me out with the translations though.

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            • FlyingheadF
              Flyinghead
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              Hello,

              I took the liberty to do a localisation of EmulationStation based on the Retropie fork. It's available here: https://github.com/flyinghead/EmulationStation
              I took inspiration from the work done in the recalbox fork. It currently supports English and French but other languages can be added with a new message file.

              I used boost::locale for this implementation, although it seems the current trend is to get rid of it.
              It was the easiest and shortest route for me...

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              • darkniorD
                darknior @Flyinghead
                last edited by

                @flyinghead WOAW excellent if it is merged you have released one of my ES dream :p
                I have download and compile it on my PI, replace the file on the directory if i understand fine :

                /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev

                I don't found emulationstation on an other place ...
                Restart my PI, and nothing :(
                I can't found any option in MENU to change ENGLISH to FRENCH to try your work.
                I think i have not replacing the good file or i miss something :(

                I have read your french translation on GIT and it is perfect :)

                Life is game, just play it !

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                • FlyingheadF
                  Flyinghead @darknior
                  last edited by

                  @darknior It uses the current environment language. You can change it systemwide by editing /etc/default/locale:
                  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

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                  • darkniorD
                    darknior @Flyinghead
                    last edited by

                    @flyinghead said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                    @darknior It uses the current environment language. You can change it systemwide by editing /etc/default/locale:
                    LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

                    Thanks a lot.
                    It is already in FRENCH, all is in french on my PI lol
                    But ES is always in english.
                    Where is your emulationstation exe ?
                    Maybe i don't change the good one.

                    Life is game, just play it !

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                    • FlyingheadF
                      Flyinghead @darknior
                      last edited by

                      It should go into /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation but there's a new folder "locale" that must be copied as well.

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                      • darkniorD
                        darknior @Flyinghead
                        last edited by

                        @flyinghead Yes i have try it too ...

                        /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation
                        /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev

                        In the two directories because for my part i use the dev version.
                        And i create :

                        locale/emulationstation2.pot
                        locale>lang
                        locale>lang>fr
                        locale>lang>fr>emulationstation2.po
                        locale>lang>fr>LC_MESSAGES>emulationstation2.po

                        Two time the file "emulationstation2.po" to be sure ... but same all is always in english for me :(

                        Life is game, just play it !

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                        • FlyingheadF
                          Flyinghead @darknior
                          last edited by

                          Try to run it directly from the build directory:
                          LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation

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                          • darkniorD
                            darknior @Flyinghead
                            last edited by

                            @flyinghead said in EmulationStation localization (translation):

                            LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./emulationstation

                            I try to do it and WOAW it works really fine, so excellent to see ES in french lol

                            After i close it, copy the LOCALE dir from build directory and now it works fine too.
                            Your work is really perfect, i really wish it will be add as official on the Es-DEV git.

                            I think it can ba a good idea to add a langage selection in UI SETTINGS to let the user force what he want. But using linux locale LANG by default is really a good idea :)

                            Will you make a pull request on git ?

                            Life is game, just play it !

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                            • hiulitH
                              hiulit @Flyinghead
                              last edited by

                              @flyinghead How can we add other languages?

                              My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                              • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                              • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                              • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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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 :

                                Life is game, just play it !

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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
                                      last edited by

                                      @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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