Hi there,
I'm afraid our i18n is unmaintained since a *very* long time and
if it works at all, then only in a very limited way. Basically only
for the menu and a few strings, but not for: dialogs (AFAIK),
Nasal text messages, error messages.
I'm not that sure if all the messages should be internationalized, but I belie
ve many users, especially Japanese users want to have either localized or inte
rnationalized FlightGear.
It would be a lot of work to fix, and a lot more to make it work
for funny languages as well, like Chinese, Japanese, ... ;-)
And given that the language of aviation is English anyway, and
most developers understand that sufficiently well, they probably
prefer to spend their time for more interesting things. (At least
that's true for me.)
I agree that many developers understand English aviation terms, but I don't th
ink that users who don't speak English understand English aviation terms as w
ell as developers.
I believe that making FlightGear i18n capable will enable non English speaking
users to fly with FlightGear with ease.
Fortunately I'm using one of these funny languages, so I can help on this,
even though I can contribute little by little. it will be a bit hard than just
making FlightGear i18n capable since it should support Windows, but it worth
trying at least. Plus, it could be localization instead of internationalizatio
n.
Maybe we should remove the --lang option instead? Would be an
easier fix. :-}
Yeah it is a easy fix, but don't even think about it!!
Tat
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