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  13 <b>wxWindows internationalization</b>
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  21     <a href="#available">Available translations</a> |
  22     <a href="#howtohelp">How to help</a>
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  26 wxWindows uses a certain number of user-readable strings such as
  27 <tt>"help"</tt> or <tt>"Load file"</tt> which should be translated to the
  28 users language if it is different from English. wxWindows has built in support
  29 for internationalization (i18n from now on) which allows for this to happen
  30 automatically if the translations to the current language are available.
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  33 You may find here the list of all existing translations with the addresses of
  34 the official translators whom you should contact if you would like to submit
  35 any corrections to the translations for your language. Also, please
  36 <a href="#howtohelp">see below</a> if you would like to translate wxWindows to
  37 your language if it is not mentioned here (or to help with one which already
  38 is -- it is quite helpful to have several translators for one language at
  39 least for proof reading).
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  43 <font size=+2><i><b><a name="available">Available translations</a></b></i></font>
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  48 Below is the table containing the list of languages supported by wxWindows.
  49 The columns of this table have the obvious meaning: in each row you will see
  50 the language, the official translator (if any) for it and the status of the
  51 translations as of wxWindows 2.3.
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  57 <td bgcolor="#004080" colspan=3> <font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> Languages supported in wxWindows 2.x </font> </td>
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  61 <td bgcolor="#DEDEDE" align=center valign=top> <font face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#000000"> Language </font> </td>
  62 <td bgcolor="#DEDEDE" align=center valign=top> <font face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#000000"> Status </font> </td>
  63 <td bgcolor="#DEDEDE" align=center valign=top> <font face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#000000"> Translator(s) </font> </td>
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  67     <td valign=center>Catalan</td>
  68     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
  69     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:paubcrespo@hotmail.com">Pau Bosch i Crespo</A>
  70                                    </td>
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  74     <td valign=center>Chinese (simplified)</td>
  75     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
  76     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:mrfx@fm365.com">mrfx</A>
  77                                    </td>
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  81     <td valign=center>Chinese (traditional)</td>
  82     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
  83     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:pal.tw@yahoo.com.tw">pal.tw</A>
  84                                    </td>
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  88     <td valign=center>Czech</td>
  89     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
  90     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:v.slavik@volny.cz">Vaclav Slavik</A>
  91                                    </td>
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  95     <td valign=center>Danish</td>
  96     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
  97     <td align=center valign=center>
  98         <A HREF="mailto:leif@danmos.dk">Leif Jensen</A>,
  99         <A HREF="mailto:Henrik@fangorn.dk">Henrik Ræder Clausen</A>
 100     </td>
 101 </tr>
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 104     <td valign=center>Dutch</td>
 105     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 106     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:phubers@solve-i-t.com">Patrick Hubers</A></td>
 107 </tr>
 108
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 110     <td valign=center>English (UK)</td>
 111     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
 112     <td align=center valign=center>n/a</td>
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 116     <td valign=center>Finnish</td>
 117     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 118     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:kgb@compart.fi">Kaj G Backas</A></td>
 119 </tr>
 120
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 122     <td valign=center>French (standard)</td>
 123     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 124     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:Stephane.Junique@optics.kth.se">Stephane Junique</A>,
 125                                    <A HREF="mailto:lionel.allorge@lunerouge.com">Lionel Allorge</A>,
 126                                    <A HREF="mailto:Gilles.Guyot@Krypton.be">Gilles Guyot</A>
 127                                    </td>
 128 </tr>
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 131     <td valign=center>German</td>
 132     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 133     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:DanR@gmx.de">Daniel Reith</A>,
 134                                    <A HREF="mailto:sparhawk@aon.at">Gerhard Gruber</A>,
 135                                    <A HREF="mailto:stefan@hedemann.de">Stefan Hedemann</A>,
 136                                    <A HREF="mailto:D.Reymann@geisenheim.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de">Dr. Detlev Reymann</A>,
 137                                    <A HREF="mailto:">Mark Johnson</A>
 138                                    </td>
 139 </tr>
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 142     <td valign=center>Greek</td>
 143     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 144     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:tsolako1@otenet.gr">Tsolakos Stavros</A>,
 145                                    <A HREF="mailto:nassosy@compulink.gr">Nassos Yiannopoulos</A>
 146                                    </td>
 147 </tr>
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 150     <td valign=center>Hungarian</td>
 151     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 152     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:Janos_Vegh@users.sourceforge.net">Végh János Dr.</A>
 153                                    </td>
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 157     <td valign=center>Indonesian</td>
 158     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 159     <td align=center valign=center>
 160         <a href="mailto:bambang@3wsi.com">Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.</a>
 161     </td>
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 165     <td valign=center>Italian</td>
 166     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 167     <td align=center valign=center>
 168         <A HREF="mailto:m.cavallini@koansoftware.com">Marco Cavallini</A>
 169         (<a href="http://www.koansoftware.com" target=_new>Koan Software</a>)
 170     </td>
 171 </tr>
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 174     <td valign=center>Polish</td>
 175     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
 176     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:matiso@hoga.pl">Piotr Mackowiak</A>,
 177                                    <a href="mailto:jpiw@go2.pl">Janusz Piwowarski</a></td>
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 181     <td valign=center>Portuguese</td>
 182     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
 183     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:bernardosw@terra.com.br">Bernardo Santos Wernesback</A></td>
 184 </tr>
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 187     <td valign=center>Russian</td>
 188     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
 189     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:rolinsky@mema.ucl.ac.be">Roman Rolinsky</A>,
 190                                    <A HREF="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">Vadim Zeitlin</A>
 191                                    <A HREF="mailto:kai@cmail.ru">Andrew V. Samoilov</A>
 192                                    </td>
 193 </tr>
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 196     <td valign=center>Serbian</td>
 197     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
 198     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:zlatkor@eunet.yu">Zlatko Rosandic</A></td>
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 202     <td valign=center>Spanish</td>
 203     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
 204     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:guille@iies.es">Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia</A></td>
 205 </tr>
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 208     <td valign=center>Swedish</td>
 209     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
 210     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:jor@mindless.com">Jonas Rydberg</A>,
 211                                    <A HREF="mailto:kgb@compart.fi">Kaj G Backas</A></td>
 212 </tr>
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 214 <tr>
 215     <td valign=center>Turkish</td>
 216     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
 217     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:dogusanh@dynaset.org">Hakki Dogusan</A></td>
 218 </tr>
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 221     <td valign=center>Ukrainian</td>
 222     <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
 223     <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:manko@salingshot.co.nz">Eugene Manko></td>
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 234 <font size=+2><i><b><a name="howtohelp">How to help</a></b></i></font>
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 238 <p>
 239 wxWindows uses the standard GNU gettext tools for i18n so if you are already
 240 familiar with them you shouldn&#39;t have any problems with working on wxWindows
 241 translations. Here are the the steps you should follow:
 242 <ol>
 243     <li>Get the latest version of the file <tt>locale/wxstd.po</tt> from the
 244         wxWindows source tree: if you&#39;re using <a href="cvs.htm">cvs</a>
 245         or the <a href="http://wxwindows.sf.net/snapshots/">daily snapshots</a>,
 246         you should already have it. Otherwise you can always
 247         retrieve it directly from the cvs repository via the Web interface
 248         <a href="http://cvs.wxwindows.org/viewcvs.cgi/wxWindows/locale/wxstd.po">here</a>.
 249
 250     <li>Rename it to <tt>XY.po</tt> where <tt>"XY"</tt> is the 2 letter
 251         <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html">ISO 639-1 language code</a>
 252         for your language.
 253
 254     <li>Translate the strings in this file using either your favourite text
 255         editor or a specialized tool such as Vaclav Slavik&#39;s excellent
 256         <a href="http://poedit.sourceforge.net/" target=_top>poEdit</a>
 257         utility.
 258
 259     <li>Verify that your translations can at least be compiled (even if they
 260         are yet incomplete) by running <tt>msgfmt -v XY.po</tt> command:
 261         please note that you <i>must</i> use the <tt>-v</tt> option. In
 262         particular, please fill the header fields because msgfmt doesn&#39;t
 263         accept the default values for them.
 264
 265     <li>Send the finished translation to
 266         <a href="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">Vadim Zeitlin</a> and it will be
 267         added to the next wxWindows release or snapshot.
 268 </ol>
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 270 <p>
 271 In addition, please consider subscribing to the very low volume
 272 <a href="http://lists.wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wx-translators">
 273 wxWindows translators</a> mailing list on which the news especially important
 274 for the translators are announced.
 275
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 277 Thank you in advance for your help!
 278
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 280 Please contact <A HREF="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">me</A> with
 281 any comments/suggestions.
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