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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
