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How to change Language of game

Postby KingTVB » Fri May 24, 2019 3:06 pm

Hello i wan,t to change ther language of FlightGear to German but i don,t know how to do this please help me

PS: Sorry for my bad English

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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby WoodSTokk » Fri May 24, 2019 4:28 pm

What OS you are using? FG looks at the language setting from the user account and use this language.
If you use Linux and has set a different language that you won't change, use:
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LANG=de_DE; fgfs --launcher

This tells the shell you want switch to german as it will be spoken in Germany and start FG in this setting.
This leave your user account untouched.
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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby KingTVB » Fri May 24, 2019 6:10 pm

helllo im using windows 10 it is on German but the Game is still in English
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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby wkitty42 » Fri May 24, 2019 8:54 pm

what version of FG are you using? please provide the full version number and not a short-cut...

eg:
2018.3.2 <- good
3.2 <- bad
18.3.2 <- bad
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby KingTVB » Fri May 24, 2019 9:26 pm

2018.3.2 the latest one
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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby rominet » Sat May 25, 2019 4:26 pm

Since the change to new translation infrastructure, no one volunteered to review the German translation, so all strings are still in English. This is not difficult, but some person speaking German has to review and approve every translated string using Qt Linguist (see here). Approving just means pressing Alt-Enter, but a handful of things need human review, that's why it hasn't been automatically done when we switched to this system.

Also, I would use a correct locale name:
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LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 fgfs --launcher

I don't think de_DE is correct as a POSIX locale name. Besides, don't put a semi-colon after LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, that's completely different (you would be setting a variable for the whole shell duration... and not export it!).

An alternative is:
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fgfs --langage=de_DE --launcher

or just '--langage=de'. The encoding isn't necessary here: it's not a locale name.

For now, you can see correct translations with: Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Spanish (es). I believe Chinese (zh_CN) works in recent versions, but there was a difficulty due to font support. It's possible that it only works in development versions, maybe only partially. The French translation (fr) is okay, except the built-in launcher hasn't been translated yet (needs some volunteer).
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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby roberto.jobet » Tue May 28, 2019 10:21 pm

Hi everybody,
Similar problem here, but in my case I would like to have it in English (currently it's set in Italian, as I'm using an Italian localized OS...).

FG ver. 2018.3.2 and Windows 10 (64bit).

Thanks!

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Re: How to change Language of game

Postby wkitty42 » Wed May 29, 2019 2:43 am

the post right above your's explains a couple of methods you can use to force your desired language... have you tried any of them?
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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