Announcement: Working on a German language file

[andy8222]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to announce that I'm actually working on a German language file for makehuman. Now I need to know, what should I do with the file when I'm finished, post it here in the forum, send it to someone personally? It would be very nice if my file would be included in official releases/nightlies so every German user can enjoy my translation.

Greetings, Andy

[joepal]

Hi, I'll cross-post this on the dev internal mailing list.

If no-one contacts you, you can always mail the file to me at joepal1976@hotmail.com and I'll force someone to deal with it.

[Manuel]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to announce that I'm actually working on a German language file for makehuman. Now I need to know, what should I do with the file when I'm finished, post it here in the forum, send it to someone personally? It would be very nice if my file would be included in official releases/nightlies so every German user can enjoy my translation.

Greetings, Andy

Check your mailbox..

[andy8222]

I have. Thanks for your nice message, Manuel! I send you the file when I'm finished which will still take some days. Days, I hope and not weeks

Meanwhle, I have a question. When I look at the Danish or Japanese language file, a typical line would look like this:

'Weight':u'Gewicht',

Now I ask, is the "u" letter before the translated word in any way necessary? On my windows XP, my language file even runs without the "u". So should I write the "u" in every line or can I leave them away?

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and I saw that the boxes for undo, redo and default are too small cause in German the words for that are much longer. So maybe the boxes can be enlarged?

Greetings, Andy

[mflerackers]

The u stands for unicode. I started with Japanese, which doesn't work with ascii, so I made only use of unicode strings. You may leave them or remove them, but you might get problems with Umlaut or Eszett depending on your editor.

[andy8222]

So I'll do like this: For the lines that include Umlaute or Eszett I make use of the "u" and in all the other lines I leave the "u" away.

Two more issues:

- When I try including a line like "Rescan target's folder" my language file corrupts cause of the ' in the English text
- All the measurement details do not work, I get for example a line from the german.missing like this with a default value: 'Lowerleg height: 48.7 cm':'',

[mflerackers]

You don't need to translate the measurement text yet, since we are still working on making those strings translatable. Regarding the ', we will just rename the English text.