Hello All,
Since it seems as if many have forgotten about this, I figured I’d send a reminder...
A while back, Mateusz decided to no longer continue development of the FreeDOS localization project. Since that time, I had received numerous requests to add or correct the translations for one program or another. Eventually, that led to the creation of a GitHub project to house them.
For the new NLS project, I included all language translations from the FreeDOS localization project and every FreeDOS package. All of which was placed into a single structured GitHub repository.
The translators I’ve dealt with really like having it all in one big blob. Also, I put together a couple scripts that create reports and assist them in finding outdated and missing translations. Those tools were quickly thrown together and are by no means perfect. But, those existing tools already help them a lot. Eventually, I will improve them.
It is a little bit of a pain for the maintainer of a program. But, it really isn’t that bad. In fact, I use the GitHub repository directly for most of my FreeDOS related projects and removed the NLS from my actual projects. I just have a my release scripts download the latest translations for my stuff during a release.
I do try and keep the original languages and translations up to date. So, if you are aware of something that is outdated, missing or whatever let me know directly. Or even better, just create an issue for the project.
Optimally, all FreeDOS devs would submit updated files (or even better issue pull requests) for their projects and just fetch translations from here.
Thanks,
:-)
Jerome
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