</head>
<body>
-Below is the table containing the list of languages supported by wxWindows.
-The list is very short right now, please let
-<A HREF="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">me</A> know if you can do a translation
-for a language not mentioned here (or to help with one which already is - it
-is quite helpful to have several translators for one language at least for
-proof reading).
+<table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0>
+<tr>
+<td bgcolor="#004080" align=left height=24 background="images/bluetitlegradient.gif">
+<font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">
+<b>wxWindows internationalization</b>
+</font>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
<p>
-The columns of this table have the obvious meaning: in each row you will see
-the language, the official translator (if any) for it and the status of the
-translations as of wxWindows 2.2.
+<center>
+ <a href="#available">Available translations</a> |
+ <a href="#howtohelp">How to help</a>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+wxWindows uses a certain number of user-readable strings such as
+<tt>"help"</tt> or <tt>"Load file"</tt> which should be translated to the
+users language if it is different from English. wxWindows has built in support
+for internationalization (i18n from now on) which allows for this to happen
+automatically if the translations to the current language are available.
+
<p>
-Please subscribe to the
-<a href="http://wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wx-translators">
-wxWindows translators</a> mailing list if you are interested in participating.
-Thanks!
+You may find here the list of all existing translations with the addresses of
+the official translators whom you should contact if you would like to submit
+any corrections to the translations for your language. Also, please
+<a href="#howtohelp">see below</a> if you would like to translate wxWindows to
+your language if it is not mentioned here (or to help with one which already
+is -- it is quite helpful to have several translators for one language at
+least for proof reading).
+
+<hr>
+<center>
+<font size=+2><i><b><a name="available">Available translations</a></b></i></font>
+</center>
+<hr>
+
<p>
-To help edit message catalogs, please see Vaclav Slavik's excellent <a href="http://www.volny.cz/v.slavik/poedit/" target=_top>poEdit</a> utility.<P>
+Below is the table containing the list of languages supported by wxWindows.
+The columns of this table have the obvious meaning: in each row you will see
+the language, the official translator (if any) for it and the status of the
+translations as of wxWindows 2.3.
+<p>
<table width=100% border=4 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
-<td bgcolor="#660000" colspan=3> <font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> Languages supported in wxWindows 2.2 </font> </td>
+<td bgcolor="#004080" colspan=3> <font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> Languages supported in wxWindows 2.x </font> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Chinese</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
- <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:mrfx@fm365.com">mrfx@fm365.com</A>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:mrfx@fm365.com">mrfx</A>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Czech</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:v.slavik@volny.cz">Vaclav Slavik</A>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Danish</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
- <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:leif@danmos.dk">Leif Jensen</A>,
- <A HREF="mailto:Henrik@fangorn.dk">Henrik Ræder Clausen</A>
- </td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center>
+ <A HREF="mailto:leif@danmos.dk">Leif Jensen</A>,
+ <A HREF="mailto:Henrik@fangorn.dk">Henrik Ræder Clausen</A>
+ </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Dutch</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:phubers@solve-i-t.com">Patrick Hubers</A></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>English (UK)</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
<td align=center valign=center>n/a</td>
</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td valign=center>Finnish</td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:kgb@compart.fi">Kaj G Backas</A></td>
+</tr>
+
<tr>
<td valign=center>French (standard)</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:Stephane.Junique@optics.kth.se">Stephane Junique</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:lionel.allorge@lunerouge.com">Lionel Allorge</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:Gilles.Guyot@Krypton.be">Gilles Guyot</A>
<tr>
<td valign=center>German</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:DanR@gmx.de">Daniel Reith</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:sparhawk@aon.at">Gerhard Gruber</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:stefan@hedemann.de">Stefan Hedemann</A>,
<tr>
<td valign=center>Hungarian</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
- <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:janos.vegh@sysdata.siemens.hu">Végh János Dr.</A>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:Janos_Vegh@users.sourceforge.net">Végh János Dr.</A>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Italian</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
- <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:mbarbon@dsi.unive.it">Mattia Barbon</A>
- </td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center>
+ <A HREF="mailto:m.cavallini@koansoftware.com">Marco Cavallini</A>
+ (<a href="http://www.koansoftware.com" target=_new>Koan Software</a>)
+ </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td valign=center>Polish</td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:matiso@hoga.pl">Piotr Mackowiak</A></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Portuguese</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:bernardosw@terra.com.br">Bernardo Santos Wernesback</A></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Russian</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:rolinsky@mema.ucl.ac.be">Roman Rolinsky</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">Vadim Zeitlin</A>
</td>
</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td valign=center>Serbian</td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:zlatkor@eunet.yu">Zlatko Rosandic</A></td>
+</tr>
+
<tr>
<td valign=center>Spanish</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td>
<td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:guille@iies.es">Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia</A></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=center>Swedish</td>
- <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT="Done"></td>
- <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:jor@mindless.com">Jonas Rydberg</A>
+ <td align=center valign=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT="Ok"></td>
+ <td align=center valign=center><A HREF="mailto:jor@mindless.com">Jonas Rydberg</A>,
+ <A HREF="mailto:kgb@compart.fi">Kaj G Backas</A></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
+<hr>
+<center>
+<font size=+2><i><b><a name="howtohelp">How to help</a></b></i></font>
+</center>
+<hr>
+
+<p>
+wxWindows uses the standard GNU gettext tools for i18n so if you are already
+familiar with them you shouldn't have any problems with working on wxWindows
+translations. Here are the the steps you should follow:
+<ol>
+ <li>Get the latest version of the file <tt>locale/wxstd.po</tt> from the
+ wxWindows source tree: if you're using <a href="cvs.htm">cvs</a>
+ or the <a href="http://wxwindows.sf.net/snapshots/">daily
+ snapshots</a>, you should already have it. Otherwise you can always
+ retrieve it directly from the cvs repository via the Web interface
+ <a href="http://cvs.wxwindows.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wxWindows/locale/wxstd.po">
+ here</a>.
+
+ <li>Rename it to <tt>XY.po</tt> where <tt>"XY"</tt> is the 2 letter
+ <a href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html">
+ ISO country code</a> for your language.
+
+ <li>Translate the strings in this file using either your favourite text
+ editor or a specialized tool such as Vaclav Slavik's excellent
+ <a href="http://poedit.sourceforge.net/" target=_top>poEdit</a>
+ utility.
+
+ <li>Verify that your translations can at least be compiled (even if they
+ are yet incomplete) by running <tt>msgfmt -v XY.po</tt> command:
+ please note that you <i>must</i> use the <tt>-v</tt> option. In
+ particular, please fill the header fields because msgfmt doesn't
+ accept the default values for them.
+
+ <li>Send the finished translation to
+ <a href="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">Vadim Zeitlin</a> and it will be
+ added to the next wxWindows release or snapshot.
+</ol>
+
+<p>
+In addition, please consider subscribing to the very low volume
+<a href="http://lists.wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wx-translators">
+wxWindows translators</a> mailing list on which the news especially important
+for the translators are announced.
+
+<p>
+Thank you in advance for your help!
+
<hr>
Please contact <A HREF="mailto:vadim@wxwindows.org">me</A> with
any comments/suggestions.
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