Hi Chip,
I figured that would have to be done for each language, something that
takes time.
It was a person who wanted the Sea Battle game in Polish.
but, that also means making strings inside my Python game itself.
Probably something for future thought, experiment with and see how it goes;
trusting translation software and such.
Thanks Chip,
Bruce and Bronx
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 8:56 AM
Subject: RE: Adding Langueages
Hi Bruce,
In addition to David's great advice, you will also need to find every
message your program may print or speak or display, and you will need to put
it into an xml string, and change your program to use the value from the xml
strings. This is the very first step once you know you have a translator
lined up to help you.
After you've done this, you have your translator give you the equivalent
strings for the language under discussion, and then you use UIDesign to
create another language section in your XML file, and you enter all of the
translations into the same named strings that you were using in your English
portion. It's important to keep the string names the same.
Hth,
Chip
Chip Orange
Florida Public Service Commission
Computer Systems Analyst
850-413-6314
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Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 1:03 PM
To: Jonathan C. Cohn; Window-Eyes Scripting List
Subject: Re: Adding Langueages
Your first issue, would be to get in touch with someone who can perform
the actual translation for you. NEVER, and I cannot stress this enough -
so once again NEVER trust any electronic, or automated translation
service. Your product would come out in a manner that would simply give
no professional touch at all, but look no less than one of these fishy,
spammy product that you can download from less reputable webservices.
So, get in touch with someone who knows for real, the language you want
the product translated into. From there, as suggested, the UI Design app
will be a good friend, unless you are comfortable with editting the XML
file directly. Based on my own experience, may I suggest that you copy
all the strings to be translated, into a text file which you can send to
the translator. When they have finished the translation, have them send
it back to you, and you then can copy and paste the translated text into
its proper osistions in the XML file. That is, unless they are a bit
more familiar with operating the computer in a software developing
environment, in which case they could easily be trained to do the
translation directly in the UI Design's interface. But many translators
are good at their job, namely to translate, and may not want to hazzle
around with the interface of the UI Design, however easy and smooth that
app has become by the years.
HTH,
David
On 11/26/2015 5:50 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn via Scripting wrote:
> If you use the strings XML object it is mostly a manner of copying the
> strings to a new language. In the XML file. There is an app called
> somethings like UI design that can help with ensuring that you copy every
> string definition from one language to the next.
>
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 11:32 AM, LB via Scripting
>> <scripting@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have never done it before, what is the best way to have an app do
>> other langueages?
>>
>> I just got an email from someone who wanted it in Polish...
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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