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Version 0.8 of the <a
href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skineditor.html" class="postlink">VLC
Skin Editor</a> will include multi-language support and I plan to
release it soon.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Download 0.8.0.dev (Development build)</span><br>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://d-gfx.kognetwork.ch/VLC/skineditor/VLCSkinEditor_0_8_dev_setup.exe"
class="postlink">Windows: Setup</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://d-gfx.kognetwork.ch/VLC/skineditor/VLCSkinEditor_0_8_dev_w32.zip"
class="postlink">Windows: ZIP</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://d-gfx.kognetwork.ch/VLC/skineditor/VLCSkinEditor_0_8_dev_unix.tar.gz"
class="postlink">Linux/Unix: tar.gz</a></li>
</ul>
<br>
I need your help so that it gets translated into more languages. Here
is a HowTo on translation for the Skin Editor:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">How to translate</span><br>
All language files are in the <span style="font-style: italic;">lang</span>
folder. Each language file is encoded in UTF-8 and that has to be the
encoding of any new language file you create as otherwise non-latin
characters will not be displayed correctly.<br>
<br>
The file <span style="font-style: italic;">languages.txt</span> tells
the program about available languages. It contains entries in the
following formate, one entry per line:<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">ISO language code</span>|<span
style="font-style: italic;">English name of the language</span>|<span
style="font-style: italic;">Language file</span><br>
<br>
So start by adding a new line for the language you want to translate
to. e.g.<br>
fr|French|fr.txt<br>
<br>
Copy the English language file (or that of any other language you
understand best), and rename it to the name you specified in <span
style="font-style: italic;">languages.txt</span>.<br>
<br>
Now start editing the copied language file.<br>
In most places you find helpful comments, started by a # at the
beginning of the line, explaining the following entries.<br>
<br>
Each entry consists of the <span style="font-style: italic;">String ID</span>
followed by a | and then the translated text.<br>
To create line breaks in the translated text write \n<br>
In some entries you can use variables which are a % followed by the
variable name, e.g. %i for an ID.<br>
Also
Some entries may contain HTML formatted text, in order that this works
the translated string has to begin with <html> and end with
</html>.<br>
<br>
I hope you understand how to translate for the
Skin Editor through this short information. If you have any questions
just post them in this thread.<br>
<br>
<!-- e -->If you want to do a translation
post it in the forums
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=54810">http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=54810</a>) and if
you're finished please send the language file along
with the name of the language to <a
href="mailto:skin-designer@videolan.org">skin-designer@videolan.org</a><!-- e --><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Already available languages are:</span><br>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
Thanks, Daniel.<br>
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