However, we need your help to translate the language resources!
We still have some language resources, but they are outdated and haven't been used for years. We really need to revise and extended them to properly cover all menu items.
Please help if you're a native speaker of any of the languages below:
- Download the files listed for your language.
- Open the file with a text editor.
- Follow instructions inside the file (replace the "???" entries with appropriate translation).
- Post the update files here (or if you know to use Git, place a merge request on https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata).
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/nl/options.xml
French: French translation is complete! Thanks to Olivier Jacq! Merci beaucoup!
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/fr/options.xml
German:
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/de/options.xml
Italian: Translation is complete! Thanks to redrum82 and Adil! Grazie mille!
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/it/options.xml
Spanish: Translation is complete! Thanks to sa7k! ¡Muchas gracias!
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/es/options.xml
Portuguese:
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/pt/menu.xml
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/pt/options.xml
Polish:
https://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/blobs/raw/master/Translations/pl/options.xml
Other Languages:
Due to a fixed, limited character set, FlightGear only supports plain ASCII characters and its Latin1/ISO-8859-1 extension - which covers Western European languages only (Portuguese to German, Italian to Norwegian). So, for FG 2.8.0 we are limited to those languages (list of languages which would work well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin1#Languages_with_complete_coverage). If you want to add support for any of these languages, then download the files for any of the languages above - and translate all items.
For next year (FG 3.0?) we hope to have a larger upgrade of the GUI code available, which should then allow arbitrary fonts and languages (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, ...).
If you have installed FG 2.8.0 pre-release, you can also test the resources straight away (update the files in the FlightGear data directory below Translations/<language>/...). Note, currently only the main menu and command-line help is translated - not the GUI dialogs itself. This will also change with a future version.
Thanks!