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Per-board Languages and Language flags
« on May 7th, 2011, 12:55 PM »Last edited on February 8th, 2013, 10:46 AM
Feature: Per-board Languages and Language flags
Developer: Arantor & Nao
Target: users
Status: 99% (complete, although more could be done?)
Comment:

Language packs can now offer a "Flag.language.png" file that will be used by Wedge to show flags where needed. Boards can now specify a default language that may be different from the overall default. User preference is still given priority, then the board language, then the overall language. Boards with a special language get a flag shown next to them.
Also, Wedge shows all available languages in the top-left corner, through a list of flags you can click to immediately switch the interface to the desired language.
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #1, on May 7th, 2011, 09:20 PM »
Here is the deal 8-)
While you're working on a major source of hard,  :^^;:  no sleep and rest, :whistle: we would also like to not sit idle.

It would be desirable to start to work over translate of a forum into other languages. What at an output of the first public version to have possibility to work with a forum on customary, a native language (not at all it English   :hmm: ).

How you look what to give wishing language files, what already operation over forum internationalization now would begin?  :whistle:

I would like now to start work on the translation of the user interface and admin panel to Russian
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #2, on May 7th, 2011, 10:04 PM »
It would be desirable for us not to get a cease and desist notice. We cannot and will not release a version until after SMF 2.0 and not before we are ready.

Besides, it already supports French too :whistle:
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #5, on May 7th, 2011, 10:59 PM »
And I'm not prepared to provide them.

Firstly, they are copyrighted and until such times as the licence change is complete, we cannot redistribute the files.

Secondly, we change things rapidly, so rapidly that you could complete the translation only for it to be horrendously out of date. Rather than you doing it over and over, there is no way we'd release the files until much closer to release.
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #6, on May 7th, 2011, 11:06 PM »
sadly  :^^;: :^^;: :^^;: we will then wait until it will be possible

by the way  :hmm:

as a plan to distribute a forum?

English version [1] and a separate language pack
or
You can then download the package directly to the required language [2]

Example: Opera browser - before downloading, you can choose the English version or Russian, or German, or Spanish, or ....................
 1. (the ability to set the language from the admin side of hope left?)
 2. (or several languages)
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #7, on May 7th, 2011, 11:56 PM »
Really, there is no way Wedge will be available in anything else than French and English during the alpha sessions. Maybe beta will introduce other languages but I doubt it -- we'll strongly discourage anyone from translating Wedge until we're done stabilizing the language files. There haven't been major changes since I implemented AeMe into Wedge, but it's clearly far from complete.

Opera is updated as language files go. 95% of all alpha/preview versions are only provided in English. They usually add other translations during the RC phase.
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #8, on May 8th, 2011, 08:54 AM »
Well .............
you can always compare the files by programs such as win merge or araxis
find differences in the changes file versions

example of the opera belongs to the future
By the time the wedge is stable
here and ask how to make a plan?
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #9, on May 8th, 2011, 03:06 PM »
A diff tool won't be enough to help, really. It'll be pretty much mandatory, though.
There have been so many changes in some areas...

Probably I'll have to rely on writing some kind of tool to help retrieve older strings and just ask translators to do the new ones.
Heck, maybe I'll have to rewrite the way language strings are handled. We discussed it many months ago but couldn't come up with something fast and efficient enough at the time.
Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« Reply #13, on May 10th, 2011, 10:02 AM »
For now, we'll have to let translators rely on diff tools... Maybe we could generate a diff of the language files ourselves, at least to determine the amount of data that changed.
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