Lisa, the Simpson!

Hey folks,

I'm working on a theme for SMF Called "Around the World in 80 Settings" It's my biggest theme, feature wise to date.

It features a hell of a lot of new strings, and I want to go into as much detail with it as possible, and one of those details is translations by default. And the thing about that is I am only able to take care of English and English British by myself.

So a little help with translating the strings into other languages would be really appreciated.

Attached are the two English language files for the theme. To translate simply translate the messages between ' and '; ('Lisa';) if there is an apostrophe then escape it with a backslash before it Lisa's => Lisa\'s. You can also attach your name in place of mine in Settings.language.php as credit, and credit will also be provided to you when I release the theme on the SMF Theme Site.

Regards
Gary M. Gadsdon
Theme Developer, Around the World in 80 Settings

Attachment removed, us the one in this post (http://www.lisa-simpson.net/topic/645.msg14643#msg14643)

As for programming all I know is some basic HTTP, but I do know how to make translations! ^-^
Everything should be in order, but as with all translation, things may be a little bit off. The only thing that I feel I didn't really get a grip on was
I'm not really sure what this "Country Toggle Box" is, and I definitely don't see it above in this particular file... if you tell me what exactly this is, I may be able to tweak the translated text so that it won't look clumsy. (if it does)

Also translated your referrals to the Simpsons game and those other things not in ' ', go ahead and change those back if you didn't want em translated. =p

Enjoy in any case. z_Z

Heh. Yeah, DONT translate the comments marked with a // please.

The country toggle box is a box that allows you to select which country you want the forum to take as it's design, like England's design will be whites and reds, Scotland will be Blues and whites, Germany will be Black, Yellow and Red for example.

Here's a VERY EARLY shot of it in action (keep in mind, that none of the actual designing is complete, this theme is being built off of my previous theme, Big Super Happy Fun Fun)

(http://babysimpson.co.uk/staff/gary/country-select.png)

Thanks for the translations anyhow.

EDIT: Looks like I forgot to add a string, can you translate



as well please.

Cheers,
Gary

There, all done! Restored your comments (too bad, looked awesome ;d) and added the new string.

Enjoy!

+ Kasper provided a Swedish translation (Settings.swedish.php, ThemeStrings.swedish.php)

Cheers.

EDIT: And for languages that use non-latin characters, translation of the word "new" would also be beneficial.

I will do a German translation. What's "$txt['ff'] = 'HP';" - Horsepower? Health Points? Harry Potter? Hewlett Packard? Also, in which file should I add "Change" and "New" translations? Should I use "Du" (personal you) or "Sie" (formal you) as appellation, or use a neutral form?

Health Points. I basically made that setting a collection of video game names for "health" and HP was one of them when I was making Big Super Happy Fun Fun.

Add to ThemeStrings.language.php (since it's loaded everywhere rather than just the settings screen) just after the list of countries.

As for "you" it's not referring to the admin on a personal level, so I think a formal version would be best.

EDIT: I suck. Oh well, I had to add another string to the end of ThemeStrings.

Ok, here's the German translation. I hope I didn't miss anything. :)

That seems about right. Cool.

+ Andreas contributed the German translation (ThemeStrings.german.php, Settings.german.php)

Cheers.
Gary

FYI. I am doing the Danich translation. I am just not as fast as you guys. ;-)

EDIT: Done.

Heh. It'll be a long time before I can get the theme ready for release. :P

Gazmanafc
I can add that, need to know in what context again though. :P "None" translates as ingen/inget/inga

None as in "Nobody" (heck you could even translate nobody instead if you wanted to) :P

For future language packs, here's updated English files, for current packs, I can just move stuff around as required.

By the way, here's the screen with the settings in action: http://babysimpson.co.uk/staff/gary/ThemeSettings.png

Gazmanafc
Added string "none" and relocated "change" to under the countries.

Sweet. Thanks.

<magically becomes drunk for some reason> You're all doing a wonderful job!

Wow! What an interesting project! I only wonder if that SMF is such a multi-cultured community that requires that many languages:-)

(Fulbert thinks is he should try an Albanian version...)

I'll give it a go too :)

Fulbert, yes we do have a multi-cultured community, and yes it does require many languages, it's mostly for support though. We have Non-English Language boards dedicated to Support, and General Chit Chat. But the community is primarily English since thats the language the entire team speaks.

We do have an Albanian Language Pack, so compatibility in Albanian is available. And I would very much appreciate a translation for the theme.

(Same applies for Marco but with Italian instead. heh)

The SMF Language Packs, listing the languages SMF is available in (http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?languages)
Our Language Specific Support/Discussion Boards (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=12.0)

Gary

Okay, here's a shot of the index and theme settings screens for you to see. So far, this is the only complete style. The Land of Chocolate.

Hey again folks.

I added a new feature, which means more strings!

For those who already translated, can you translate and post (no need for re-attaching files, just post them on the forum)



If anyone wants to translate new languages, I've included updated files in this post.

German:

Is legend really a valid word here? Maybe I don't know all definitions of it, I translated it as "list" anyway since swedish is a limited language. ^-^

Swedish:


Translated "Online Membergroup legend:" simply as "Membergroups online:", I'm guessing since there's a colon at the end, that's what's gonna show up in front of the membergroups on the index... should look good and clean. Lemme know if it's supposed to be different or something.

Actually, when there's a _desc string along side a string with a colon, it means it's going onto the setting screen where it can be turned on and off, the word "Legend" by itself is going on the main index.

Like this
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/gazmanafc/legend.gif)

In SMF 2.0 the feature would work slightly differently and it's available by default. But this is for 1.1 :P

Anyway, maybe I should've finalised the theme before I started requesting translations, as I keep adding features. Oh well. You guys are cool to help out right? :P Get your names out there to quite literally hundreds of thousands of users.

I've added an attachments adjusting setting that allows you to view them horizontally or vertically. This time around, I'll include what file they would be intended for. Y'all can just post them on the forum again. 

Settings.language.php:

ThemeStrings.language.php

if that's what'll show on the index, this'll make more sense. Just "Groups", can use "Användargrupper" instead if you want it to say "User groups", but the above code looks best for the swedish one imo.

I'll be gone from the forum for a while, if you want me to keep translating into swedish, add up features until you're basically done and send 'em to scape_miles@hotmail.com (including the ones in your last post, not in the mood to translate right now).

(quoted, so you can see it better)

I guess the last "strong" is superfluous, right? I'll translate later, when you're finished with adding new text strings, I'd say. ;)

Heh. Yeah, that second </strong> can be done away with. Since I'm possibly gonna keep adding settings, it would probably be better if I just waited until the theme is nearly ready for release then just mail you packs to translate.

Okay, I think the theme is about complete, just gotta make some country packs, and that's about it.

The theme contains 70 settings, so ten short, but I ran out of ideas. :P So what the heck... :P

EDIT: Please dont translate the Theme's name.

Cheers.

Er...


i completely forgot about this.  :o
I promise that after i'm done with the simpsons entry for the competition i'll go back to this. I should have less work hassle too. Sorry for my absence.

Meh, it was probably better that you forgot about this topic since I spent time actually developing the theme itself, and there were significant changes to it.

Though, for Italian, I think a member on MT2 (Ivan (http://multitalk2.com/index.php?action=profile;u=702)), he says he can do Indonesian and Italian, but I don't know which he's doing first. So you might not need to bother in that case. I'll keep you posted. ;)

I assume the "Mr. X" part in ThemeStrings is supposed to be the same as the standard text strings that appear in the SMF Admin Control Center? Wouldn't it be easier to use the text strings from the available language files? In any case, I just copied them over.

What exactly is this supposed to be?


I hope you didn't change anything of the text strings or variable names that I translated a while ago, since I simply copied them over from my older files (minus the ones that do not exist anymore).

Yeah, perhaps I should explain about setting, it is kinda weird. It goes in conjunction with the $txt['post_topic'] setting.

It changes how the posts/topic layout is handled on the board index.

(http://babysimpson.co.uk/staff/gary/boardindex.gif)

It became kinda a fad for people in their themes, so I thought why not, it'll add a new setting. :P And indeed, no variable names have been changed since the last set of files I uploaded.

True. I would've preferred really to have used the actual strings from the other language files, but they aren't called for use on the index page, only the specific page they are on, in this case, the admin center.

All, here's a complete screenshot of the Theme Settings page in action so you can see how things are going to look there.

http://babysimpson.co.uk/staff/gary/Theme%20Settings.png (It's 500kb in size)

Andreas - hows the German pack coming?
Marco - I have an Italian pack now, so you can relax and concentrate on something more important to you. ;P
Anyone else who wants to translate - You're welcome to do so.
(As of 3:02 am GMT, 11 August the languages available are American, British, Italian, Swedish and Danish)

Thanks for the screenshot - I was rather busy recently, but maybe I'll find some time today to complete the German translation.

Ok, I think I'm done. Attached is a ZIP with both files.

BTW, I think you missed an "URL" in the explanation for "Show URLs to posts". ;)

yeah. I did, that was pointed out before, on MT2. :P

The theme has now been released:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=940
http://simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=255506.0

Thanks all (more contributions are always welcome)

Are you interested in a French translation? (Don't worry, I'm better in French than in English ;))

French would be nice, yes.

Translation in progress ....
I give you that in two or three days.

No worries, there's plenty of time.

Here is the French translation.
I hope there will be no problem with character encoding (for French characters like éèêï).

Yup. That looks cool. Cheers.

I've added support for two of the more popular portal packages for SMF, SimplePortal and TinyPortal. Can I get translations on:


Just post them onto the forum, there isnt any need to attach files.

Cheers.

Here is the French translation:

And the German one:


Also, can you please check the Settings.german.php again; apparently, I misplaced some closing parentheses in the strings like those above. They should be located at the end of the line, in front of the full stop, rather than right behind the </a> tag.