[strawberryfield]

Poedit gave me the same messages (file converted to iso...) and the accented characters had gone.
In the header there was UTF-8, I downloaded the file again and the problem disappear...

Thank you Peter for extending the ORTS.pot with the key command descriptions!

[gpz]

You are welcome. Just be prepared for that ORTS.pot will be moved/merged. I don't know yet what James' plan is with it. ;)

[cjakeman]

I'm wondering if this feature has advanced to the stage where we can provide instructions to anyone willing to provide their own language files?

[markus_GE]

When that happens, I would like to keep my promise I to help translate ORTS to German that I once made when translating the keyboard guide. ;)

Cheers, Markus

[Csantucci]

There already are very well written instructions. Download OR with Tortoise and look for Localization Manual.doc into the Documentation folder.

[Serana]

Csantucci, on 22 February 2014 - 06:44 AM, said:

There already are very well written instructions. Download OR with Tortoise and look for Localization Manual.doc into the Documentation folder.

Well it hasn't been updated.
Most of the time, the translators (who don't have Visual C# Express) will not have to care about the compilation (if they don't need to test the translations).
Now, the compilation is done automatically each time Open Rails is compiled.
So, the commands in the manual are no longer used by developers.

[markus_GE]

What does that mean if I want to submit a trasnaltion? (Could probably do so in a week or two).

Cheers, Markus

[Csantucci]

Download the Windows edition of the free program POedit from here http://www.poedit.net/download.php .
Launch POedit and disable the generation of MO files (they are useless for Open Rails).
Open the File >> Preferences menu.
In Editor, disable “Automatically compile .mo file on save”.
With POEdit, click on “Create new translation”.
Select the POT model (e.g. start with menu.pot) . It's located in the downloaded Open Rails pack at : Source\Locales
Sometimes, there are errors when you load the model. Don't care.
Select the language of your translation file.
Save the initialized PO file.
You can now translate the strings with POEdit.
In order to be a lot quicker, you can:
Go to the next sentence: Ctrl + Enter.
Copy the source text: Ctrl + B.
Save your modifications (your .po file is now complete).
Repeat this for all .pot files.
Send all the generated .po file to Peter (gpz).
Done


Peter will do what else is needed to insert the new language in the package, if he's still willing to to that ;)

I hope I was correct and complete.

[strawberryfield]

Carlo said exactly as you can make a translation.

But if you want to test it create in the Program directory a batch file like this:

..\Source\3rdPartyLibs\GNU.Gettext.Msgfmt.exe -l it -r Menu -d .\ -L GNU.Gettext.dll ..\Source\Locales\Menu\it.po
..\Source\3rdPartyLibs\GNU.Gettext.Msgfmt.exe -l it -r RunActivity -d .\ -L GNU.Gettext.dll ..\Source\Locales\RunActivity\it.po
..\Source\3rdPartyLibs\GNU.Gettext.Msgfmt.exe -l it -r ORTS -d .\ -L GNU.Gettext.dll ..\Source\Locales\ORTS\it.po

of course change all the occurences of 'it' with the iso code of your language.
Running this script you create the dlls for your language; leaving 'System' in the language selection all translated string will appear in the program. Then send the .po files to Peter ;)

[markus_GE]

Wow... seems super easy. I´ll see to have it "on track" by the first week of march... currently completing my paper for graduation, needs to be done by the end of FEB.

Cheers, and ;) for the detailed explanation!

Markus

PS: Bookmarked this thread :)