[Translators] Help to translate the VLC Skin Editor

Thu Jan 22 11:37:14 CET 2009

I'm busy now, but I'll try to do the catalan translation. 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:11:55 +0100
From: daniel.dreibrodt at googlemail.com
To: translators at videolan.org
Subject: [Translators] Help to translate the VLC Skin Editor

Version 0.8 of the VLC
Skin Editor will include multi-language support and I plan to
release it soon.

Download 0.8.0.dev (Development build)

  Windows: Setup
  Windows: ZIP
  Linux/Unix: tar.gz

I need your help so that it gets translated into more languages. Here
is a HowTo on translation for the Skin Editor:

How to translate

All language files are in the lang
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.

The file languages.txt tells
the program about available languages. It contains entries in the
following formate, one entry per line:

ISO language code|English name of the language|Language file

So start by adding a new line for the language you want to translate
to. e.g.

fr|French|fr.txt

Copy the English language file (or that of any other language you
understand best), and rename it to the name you specified in languages.txt.

Now start editing the copied language file.

In most places you find helpful comments, started by a # at the
beginning of the line, explaining the following entries.

Each entry consists of the String ID
followed by a | and then the translated text.

To create line breaks in the translated text write \n

In some entries you can use variables which are a % followed by the
variable name, e.g. %i for an ID.

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>.

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.

If you want to do a translation
post it in the forums
(http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=54810) and if
you're finished please send the language file along
with the name of the language to skin-designer at videolan.org

Already available languages are:

  English
  German

Thanks, Daniel.

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