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I created a new dir called French and I started to translate the Dictionary. What a hell of a joke. It is in fact a full time programmer job (for my French case but surely also for other numerous languages) as the main reasons I can think of are: 1) genders exist in French (masculin and feminin); 2) the adjectives are changing according to the genders but also according to singular or plural; 3)the structure of phrases (order of words) is different from English; 4) etc...

As an example, I changed "Nathalie's father" into "Le père de Nathalie". To do so you have to: A) within dictionary.xml "PhParents": adding "Le père de" instead "father", rearrange the numbered curly brackets B) within lang.vbs: to set both strings "'s" and "'" to empty string "" to cancel the "'s" within the function "StrPossessiveProperNoun()". The normal way should be to simply delete the said function but you also have to delete any reference to this function within the script file but also to renumber some curly brackets ref due to the function deletion within some string concatenation in dictionary.xml.

Easy peasy for only a quarter of a phrase!

I intend to continue modifying a bit just to get acquainted with HTML and Jscript languages. I'm presently tackle "né" & "née" and "mort" & "morte" according to the individual gender.

Feel free to also attempt your translation but all your work will be scraped when your new language skin comes up in a future revision.

Which brings my question: When do Genopro intend to issue the French skin and some others?

Thank you for your reply.

I need to finish GenoPro 2.0 first.  This product is way behind schedule.  Once this task is complete, I will improve the report generator to have a much-improved phrase generator with callbacks / delegates.  Since French is my mother tongue, I will have a real-life scenario to work with.  I will also assist others wishing to translate to other languages, so we can develop a genuine solution for every language.

My recommendation is to take a look at the topic Translation of narrative phrases using pattern matching to have an idea of what I have in mind.  I am aware of the gender issues (male, female) for names, such as "Dan's Car" vs "L'auto de Dan".

So you know almost everything about me then. But this isn't the purpose of this forum.

What I was trying to say about cloning a skin, even the Grand-Master cannot deny that, is that it is a MAMMOTH task (also considering every language Genopro intend to translate) and should be left to the Genopropro programmers. Translation can be done, by any users/readers, adding words in dic.xml, adding functions and/or slightly modifying lang.vbs, but everything will be overwriten on the next revision and, perhaps more importantly everything will be optimized by Genopro.

I am presently preparing/translating the French skin and will be pleased to forward a copy to Genopro when my work is over.

Jean-Claude

Edited: Friday, March 3, 2006 by GenoProSupport

I'we seen a lot of localized software recently and there are even newsgroups about it (because I live in small country and localization is mostly a matter of good will of product users).

So I've stumbled upon http://initranslator.sourceforge.net/, which might be helpful if skin texts are choosed to be in separate file. It could alo be used in Report generator skin(s).

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