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The recommended way to translate ScummVM is to use the web site mentioned above. But you can also download the translations on your computer and work locally. You can get the existing translation files either from our GitHub repository(https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/master/po - click on the file you want and use the "raw" or "View Raw" button) or from our translation web site (https://translations.scummvm.org). When working locally, translations can be produced with the use of the [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ GNU gettext tools]. To create or edit a translation file you can for example use [http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/PO-Mode.html Emacs PO-Mode] or [http://www.poedit.net/ Poedit] which are both free and available for various platforms. See [[#Editing Tools|Editing Tools]] for more tools. | The recommended way to translate ScummVM is to use the web site mentioned above. But you can also download the translations on your computer and work locally. You can get the existing translation files either from our GitHub repository(https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/master/po - click on the file you want and use the "raw" or "View Raw" button) or from our translation web site (https://translations.scummvm.org). When working locally, translations can be produced with the use of the [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ GNU gettext tools]. To create or edit a translation file you can for example use [http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/PO-Mode.html Emacs PO-Mode] or [http://www.poedit.net/ Poedit] which are both free and available for various platforms. See [[#Editing Tools|Editing Tools]] for more tools. | ||
Default users of the website can make suggestions and vote on the suggestions, but they cannot save translations or create new translations. Only official translators can start a new translations, accept suggestions and save changes to a translations. Thus if you want to start a translation for a new language you will need to speak to us. Also starting a translation it would be a good idea to check [https://translations.scummvm.org/projects/scummvm/scummvm/ the list of existing translations] and to contact the team on the forum or IRC to know if other persons are already working on a translation for this language. That way if there is already a translation in the work you can avoid duplicate efforts and work together. | |||
You can also start your translation effort offline before it is added to the website by using the scummvm.pot (from [https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/master/po the source code repository]) as a template and fill out the header. Then you just have to translate the strings and save your work in a po file. To download the file, click on scummvm.pot and then the ''raw'' or ''View Raw'' button. If this tries to display the file in your browser, do a right click on that button and select ''Save target file as...'' (the working might be different depending on the browser). You might also need to remove any extension added by your browser (for example for me Safari downloads the file as ''scummvm.pot.pps'', apparently believing it to be a MS Powerpoint file). | |||
You should also set the 'X-Language-name: Name\n' field in the header of the po file to indicate the name of the language in the ScummVM GUI. If not set, it will use the language code instead (for example 'de_DE' or 'fr_FR'). | You should also set the 'X-Language-name: Name\n' field in the header of the po file to indicate the name of the language in the ScummVM GUI. If not set, it will use the language code instead (for example 'de_DE' or 'fr_FR'). | ||