I18N progress

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

This ticket is intended for two purposes:

1. Submit new translation source files by attaching them to this ticket.
2. Report about performing synchronization of existing translation source files in the SVN repository.

Step 1 is done by contributors willing to add support for a new language to the VirtualBox product. An accepted translation file appears in the SVN repository and becomes available in the binary builds. Even after that, contributors remain responsible for updating translation files to keep them in sync with updates to the VirtualBox UI.

Step 2 is performed by the GUI maintainer at innotek before a new release (or after a major UI change) to inform contributors that translation files need to be updated.

More info about the translation process can be found ​here.

The current list of translators:

language	id	authors	legal status	%%
English (built-in)	built_in	innotek	OK (internal)	100%
German	de	innotek	OK (internal)	99%
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh_TW	OSSII(OSS Integral Institute Co, Ltd.)	OK (comment:81)	100%
Chinese (China)	zh_CN	Victor Wang	(comment:92)	100%
Italian	it	Ciro Mattia Gonano <ciro/winged.it>	OK (comment:24)	100%
Romanian	ro	Alexandru Ioan Eftimie <alexeftimie/gmail.com>	OK (comment:25)	100%
Spanish	es	Joaquín Duo	OK (comment:28)	84%
Arabic	ar	Berdai Mohammed (no e-mail)	needs relicensing	25%
Russian	ru	innotek, Igor Gorbounov, Egor Morozov	(comment:52, comment:47)	100%
Slovenian	sl	JLP? (no e-mail)	no results yet	???
French	fr	Jean-Jacques Sarton <jj.sarton/t-online.de>	OK (comment:33)	100%
Japanese	ja	Toshimitsu Tanaka	OK (comment:75)	100%
Polish	pl	Adrian Łubik <adrian5632/gmail.com>, Dawid Wrobel <cromo/klej.net>	OK (comment:78, comment:80, comment:174)	100%
Korean	ko	Park Shinjo <peremen/gmail.com>	OK (comment:224)	99%
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt_BR	Erico Mendonca <erico.mendonca/gmail.com>	OK (comment:98)	100%
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt_PT	Marcelo Coelho <marcelocoelho/gmail.com>	OK (comment:230)	100%
Swedish	sv	Daniel Nylander	OK (comment:122)	100%
Hungarian	hu	George Hron	OK (comment:136)	83%
Serbian	sr	Ozzii <ozzii.translate/gmail.com>	OK (comment:234)	100%
Finnish	fi	Jarno Kiuttu	OK (comment:137)	56%
Czech	cs	Jan Kaláb <pitel/nomi.cz>, Jan Lipovsky, Ondrej Karlik	OK (comment:183)	100%
Dutch	nl	Alexander L. de Goeij (no e-mail)	no results yet	???
Slovak	sk	Ivan Masár <helix84/centrum.sk>	OK (comment:231)	65%
Basque	eu	Piarres Beobide <pi/beobide.net>	OK (comment:211)	99%
Catalan	ca	Pau? (info/somgnu.cat)	no results yet	???
Indonesian	id	david_yacobus? (no e-mail)	no results yet	???

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

bluebat, VirtualBox_zh_TW.ts should appear in SVN shortly. Please zip it next time (there is no UI to download an attachment in raw format here yet; making it binary will force raw format automatically).

The file is indeed quite outdated. When updating, make sure you will update a special section called @@@ (see ​http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Translating for description).

Translation files for all languages have been synchronized with sources. This will be always done when a new translation file is added to SVN for the first time (besides regular synchronizations).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

VirtualBox_zh_CN is now in SVN, all language files have been synchronized with sources.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Synchronized all NLS with sources (Language UI update).

[Ciro Mattia Gonano]

Italian translation is completed but not yet tested.

[KhaoticMind]

I'll start translating it to Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR).

[Joaquin Duo]

I have begun translating to spanish.

What about uploading the partially translated files to the wiki?
So in that way it would be easier to coordinate translations.
Furthermore, the partially made translations wouldn't be lost. (supposing the translator abandon for some reason)

[bluebat]

additional translation for zh_TW

[Achim Hasenmueller]

Replying to jd:

I have begun translating to spanish.

Muchos gracias!

What about uploading the partially translated files to the wiki?

Just submit your translation files on a regular base to this record. We will add them to the source tree, even when they're not done yet.

Everyone: please add a comment every time you upload a translation, this way we get notified.

[Alex Eftimie]

I've started the Romanian translation!

[Joaquin Duo]

Replying to achimha:

Replying to jd:

I have begun translating to spanish.

Muchos gracias!

What about uploading the partially translated files to the wiki?

Just submit your translation files on a regular base to this record. We will add them to the source tree, even when they're not done yet.

There it goes!

It should be good to give some guidelines about the acceleration keys on the wiki article.
Is there a way to check acceleration keys overlapping on qt3-linguist?
How does the translator know the limits of the acceleration keys context?
I mean there are same accel keys between same <context></context>.

[Mohammed Berdai]

I have started the Arabic translation !

[akrus]

Hello, I'd like to translate VirtualBox to Russian, but the file is already added to SVN. Is the position still available? I'll start translating right after your reply :)

[Achim Hasenmueller]

Replying to akrus:

Hello, I'd like to translate VirtualBox to Russian, but the file is already added to SVN. Is the position still available? I'll start translating right after your reply :)

Someone's already working on it (Igor Gorbunov). Send a message to info at virtualbox.org if you want to get in touch with him, maybe he needs some help.

Спасибо!

[wcervini]

Replying to jd:

Replying to achimha:

Replying to jd:

I have begun translating to spanish.

Muchos gracias!

What about uploading the partially translated files to the wiki?

Just submit your translation files on a regular base to this record. We will add them to the source tree, even when they're not done yet.

There it goes!

It should be good to give some guidelines about the acceleration keys on the wiki article.
Is there a way to check acceleration keys overlapping on qt3-linguist?
How does the translator know the limits of the acceleration keys context?
I mean there are same accel keys between same <context></context>.

Hi I'd like to help at the translation in Spanish. This is my native language and I start to translate.

[Alex Eftimie]

Hi, I know that this isn't the right place to ask that, but I cannot test my translation. I'm using VirtualBox 1.3.8, Qtlinguist3, I've got the .qm, placed into <path_VB..>/nls/ folder, changed locale to ro_RO (on ubuntu 6.10), but still got nothing. The only language I see is English. Any help would be appreciated.

[JLP]

Hi all I'm going to start translation into Slovenian language (Slovenščina)

[Joaquin Duo]

Recomendación para los traductores al español

Convenciones de la traducción:

• Folder: carpeta (en este momento será la traduccion orientada a windows). Probablemente se haga una versión donde se diga directorio.
  
• Share, shared: compartir, compartido, préstamo (cuando es sustantivo)
  
• Snapshot: Instantánea
  
• Reset: Reiniciar
  
• Guest: Huésped
  
• Host: Anfitrión
  
• Backspace: Retroceso
  
• Con respecto a los "acceleration keys" lo mejor es tratar de ponerlas en el mismo palabra y orden de letra donde estaban en inglés a menos que coincida con otra anterior.
  

La presente traducción no se adapta en su totalidad a estas reglas hay que editar algunas cosas.

Saludos!

[Joaquin Duo]

Replying to alexef:

Hi, I know that this isn't the right place to ask that, but I cannot test my translation. I'm using VirtualBox 1.3.8, Qtlinguist3, I've got the .qm, placed into <path_VB..>/nls/ folder, changed locale to ro_RO (on ubuntu 6.10), but still got nothing. The only language I see is English. Any help would be appreciated.

The translation is for the upcoming version of vbox. You should test it from svn (dont know its state)

Cheers!

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Thanks to everyone for his/her contribution! I want to clarify the requirements you must meet in order to let us legally include your translation to the VirtualBox product.

1. Each of you must explicitly state here that you allow InnoTek to use your translation under the terms of the MIT license. Alternatively, you can fill, sign and send us a copy of the InnoTek Contributor's Agreement (ICA).
2. Those who haven't already done so, must send an e-mail to info {at} innotek.de that contains the name of the language you are translating to.

To get more details on the above, please study the section Submitting the translation carefully.

NOTE. These steps are a must for ALL translators, even for those whose translation files are already in SVN! If we don't get your explicit permission as described above, we will have to remove your translations from the product. And please don't forget that you must specify your full name in your licensing statement (as well as in the Authors section of the translation file), not a nick name.

[Ciro Mattia Gonano]

Ok, so on with legalish...

• My real name is Ciro Mattia Gonano, and my email is <removed>
• I'm translating VirtualBox in Italian;
• the actual translation (up to 2006-04-13) is currently available as an attachment to ticket #234
• I release my translation under the terms of the MIT license.

[Alex Eftimie]

For the legal part :

• my real name is Alexandru Ioan Eftimie, my email address is <removed>
• I've translated VirtualBox into Romanian
• the actual translation (2007-04-16) is available as an attachment to the ticket #234
• I release my translation under the terms of the MIT license

[Technologov]

I have tried to open "VirtualBox_ru.ts", but I was unable to do so.

What should I do or what can go wrong?

igorbounov: What version of Qt Linguist do you use?

I have successfully opened the Innotek's template.

Platform: openSUSE 10.2, Qt Linguist 3.3.7.

-Alexey "Technologov"

[Joaquin Duo]

Replying to alexef:

For the legal part :

• my real name is Alexandru Ioan Eftimie, my email address is <removed>
• I've translated VirtualBox into Romanian
• the actual translation (2007-04-16) is available as an attachment to the ticket #234
• I release my translation under the terms of the MIT license

Alex, one tip, you should zip the files. :) Cheers

[Joaquin Duo]

• My real name is Joaquín Duo
• I'm translating VirtualBox in Spanish;
• My submitted translation (up to 2007-04-15) is currently available as an attachment to ticket #234
• I release my translation under the terms of the MIT license.

PD: I hope next time it's a GPL license. :-D

[Alex Eftimie]

Uploaded my latest translation, VirtualBox_ro.ts.zip zipped (jd :)), and I think that VirtualBox_ro.ts (165.2 kB) might be removed from this page.

Cheers

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

I've added all new languages and synchronized them with the current code base. They will soon appear in the SVN so please be patient and don't send updates until then.

General note to everybody Please look through the table of current translators. Languages that contain columns with the bold text are not legally clean and WILL BE REMOVED from the product before the next release if we don't get the required information from the authors. Bold text in the Authors column means that we don't have the full name of the author and don't have his/her e-mail address. Bold in License status means we don't have a legal permission from the author.

jean-jacques, I've renamed VirtualBox_fr_FR.ts to VirtualBox_fr.ts to have French French for all territories if there is no territory-specific translation (like fr_BE for example). And please don't forget about

lestat, I've done the same to VirtualBox_it_IT for the same reason (there is unlikely to be a separate translation to it_CH).

[jean-jacques]

Replying to dmik: The MyLanguage (fr_TR) translation attached here by Jean-Jacques is published under the terms of the license.

[jean-jacques]

Replying to jean-jacques:

Replying to dmik: The French language (fr_FR) translation attached here by Jean-Jacques Sarton <e-mail removed> is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Alex Eftimie]

My email address is mispelled: lexeftimie instead of alexeftimie
Alex Eftimie

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

alexef, sorry and thank you, corrected now.

jean-jacques, you are not listening to me for some reason. I asked to not update the translation before the one you have attached here earlier appears in SVN... I will try to merge the latest one from you once more but I cannot guarantee it will be clean (so you will have to carefully check it). And, once again, please zip the .ts file next time before attaching.

All, just in case. Please no translation updates until the current ones are in SVN so that you can download them and use to continue your work.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

User reports: The buttons Next, Back, Cancel and Finish have no entry in the ts files.

[jean-jacques]

The wizard dialog are not OK concerning the internationalization. I have foubd the following which is not included within the ts files: Next, Back, Finish, Cancel, Other/Unknown (OS type combo box), E&xisting (new image file)

[jean-jacques]

Replying to dmik: I habe attached send, I hope so, a new version of the french translation.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

All translation files are now up-to-date. You should download your translation file from SVN (​here) and continue on that file, not on your local copy you attached here!.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

I've found a problem with whatsthis balloons in settings dialogs (shown from the context menu or after clicking on the ? button on the window title bar on Win32). Qt couldn't always properly recognize rich text used for some items and therefore would display HTML tags and would break lines instead of formatting them as desired. I had to resynchronize all language files again so that some items became outdated. You will have to download the files again from SVN, merge with what you've already done and re-translate those unlucky items. Sorry for inconvenienve.

Also, I've decided that VirtualBox will ship translation files for built-in Qt dialogs and other resources (see comment:37) instead of relying that they are installed on the user machine together with the Qt library. There are lots of reasons to do so, the most important are 1) we ship our own Qt build on Win32 and 2) not all languages are present in the set of Qt translation files supplied by Trolltech.

Therefore, you can now find qt_xx_YY.ts files in the nls in ​this directory. Part of them are already fully translated, the other part are totally untranslated. Here are the untranslated ones:

1. qt_es.ts
2. qt_it.ts
3. qt_ro.ts
4. qt_zh_CN.ts
5. qt_zh_TW.ts

People maintaining the corresponding !VirtualBox_*.ts files should translate these qt_*.ts files as well, in order to get their language in built-in Qt dialogs.

[Technologov]

Great Work !

Few things:

1. Is there a way 2 developers work on the same translation file ?

What's the best practices for several independent developers working together ? Say, one can start from the beginning and the other from the end, and we combine results somehow (maybe SVN) ?

2. Documentation translation proposal:

To make the product really translated, the documentation must be translated as well. However now, it's too professional, very-long & complex to be translatable.

One idea to make documentation more translatable, is to devide current Innotek's documentation "User Manual" into 2 parts: "Start-up guide" (for newbies) and "Reference guide" (for advanced users).

This will allow translators to translate just the first guide.

So small team/1-man can translate the start-up guide, so it will be available in 40+ languages shortly (weeks, and cover basic user needs), while the "Reference guide" can only be translated by large teams - which will result in, say, 5-8 languages after a long period of time (many months/1 year).

What do you think ?

-Alexey "Technologov"

[Alex Eftimie]

Replying to dmik:

Therefore, you can now find qt_xx_YY.ts files in the nls in ​this directory. Part of them are already fully translated, the other part are totally untranslated. Here are the untranslated ones:

1. qt_es.ts
2. qt_it.ts
3. qt_ro.ts
4. qt_zh_CN.ts
5. qt_zh_TW.ts

People maintaining the corresponding !VirtualBox_*.ts files should translate these qt_*.ts files as well, in order to get their language in built-in Qt dialogs.

One question: after modifying VirtualBox_*.ts and qt_*.ts from SVN, where do we put them? Attachments to this ticket? Thank you!

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to alexef:

One question: after modifying VirtualBox_*.ts and qt_*.ts from SVN, where do we put them? Attachments to this ticket? Thank you!

Thanks for the update! You should zip everything to VirtualBox_xx_YY.zip next time.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to dmik:

Thanks for the update! You should zip everything to VirtualBox_xx_YY.zip next time.

The update is in SVN.

[akrus]

The Russian (ru_RU) translation attached here by Egor Morozov is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[jean-jacques]

Replying to dmik: I have found that the title for network interface tabs (Adapter 0, ..) are not translated.

Furthermore one of the english text dipalayed within the shared folders don't correspond to the text within the ts files:

TS-Text: Edit selected shared folder definition.

Displayed: Edits the selected shared folder definition.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to jean-jacques:

I have found that the title for network interface tabs (Adapter 0, ..) are not translated.

Thanks! I will fix that on the next update.

Furthermore one of the english text dipalayed within the shared folders don't correspond to the text within the ts files:

TS-Text: Edit selected shared folder definition.

Displayed: Edits the selected shared folder definition.

No, this is not correct. The .ts file in SVN contains a proper string. I will merge it for you but please recheck the translation afterwards.

[igorbounov]

The Russian (ru_RU) translation here by Igor Gorbounov is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Russian and French translations are merged to SVN.

[jean-jacques]

Replying to dmik: Attached VirtualBix_fr.ts.zip according to version find within the VirtualBox OSE source from April 13 2006.

Two problems:

The combobox for OS-type containt "Other/unknown". This is not in the VirtualBox_*.ts files.

The main window tab snapshot icons are not very well. The tooptip for the second contain the key stroke (Ctrl+Alt+Maj+D) this can't be found within the ts files.

The 5. icons contain within parenthesis the word Space, This is strange, may be (Space Key) will be better.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to jean-jacques:

Two problems:

The combobox for OS-type containt "Other/unknown". This is not in the VirtualBox_*.ts files.

This string has nothing to do with GUI -- it is reported by the VBox core. The VBox core translation framework is not yet complete (but in progress).

The main window tab snapshot icons are not very well. The tooptip for the second contain the key stroke (Ctrl+Alt+Maj+D) this can't be found within the ts files.

You've misread the .ts file. All five tool buttons and their shortcurs are there (including the .ts file you've just attached).

The 5. icons contain within parenthesis the word Space, This is strange, may be (Space Key) will be better.

Sorry, I cannot get what you mean.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Russian, Romanian and French translations are merged to SVN.

igorbounov, there is no need to create multiple attachments of the same language -- you can overwrite the existing one. Also, I couldn't send a reply to your last e-mail, because <mailer daemon e-mail address> told that your work e-mail (igorbounov...) is Unrouteable address.

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[Joaquin Duo]

Replying to dmik:

Therefore, you can now find qt_xx_YY.ts files in the nls in ​this directory. Part of them are already fully translated, the other part are totally untranslated. Here are the untranslated ones:

1. qt_es.ts

I dont get it :)
I downloaded the qt_es.ts (qt 3.3.8) from trolltech and it is translated.
Which is the difference between this two versions?

1. qt_it.ts
2. qt_ro.ts
3. qt_zh_CN.ts
4. qt_zh_TW.ts

Best Regards, Joa

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to jd:

Replying to dmik:

Therefore, you can now find qt_xx_YY.ts files in the nls in ​this directory. Part of them are already fully translated, the other part are totally untranslated. Here are the untranslated ones:

1. qt_es.ts

I dont get it :)
I downloaded the qt_es.ts (qt 3.3.8) from trolltech and it is translated.
Which is the difference between this two versions?

The difference is that I took these .ts files from Qt 3.3.3, because this is the version we are currently bound to on Win32. So, you can just compare the one from 3.3.8 and the untranslated one from SVN and send me the first one if there are no incompatible changes (you will have to fix them first if there are).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Russian and French translations are merged to SVN.

[Joaquin Duo]

Checked: The 3.3.8 is the same as the 3.3.3

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Russian and Spanish translations are merged to SVN.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

The Japanese language (qt_ja_JP.ts) translation attached here by Toshimitsu Tanaka is published under the terms of the MIT license.

VirtualBox_ja_JP.ts: in progress...

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

toshi3_tanaka, thank you for your contribution!

Recent Japanese, Spanish and Russian changes are applied.

All language files have been synchronized with the current sources and merged to SVN. There was one important change: "Global Settings" is renamed to "Preferences" everywhere. Your old translations will still work but are marked as untranslated, because the translation will be different for many languages. Please review.

[Mohammed Berdai]

I agree to release my Arabic translation under MIT license.

I'm at ~10%. Sorry for the delay :(

[Mohammed Berdai]

I'm 25%

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

at line 2051 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

<source>Failed to discard the snapshot <b>%1</b>of the virtual machine <b>%1</b>.</source>

There are two "%1".

Is this correct?

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to toshi3_tanaka:

at line 2051 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

<source>Failed to discard the snapshot <b>%1</b>of the virtual machine <b>%1</b>.</source>

There are two "%1".

Is this correct?

No, it was not correct. Thank you for noticing! The source and all language files have been corrected and merged to SVN. All translations are kept, so no re-translation is necessary unless your language is Chinese (where I simply don't know what means "snapshot" and what means "machine" -- so please check; items are marked as "unfinished").

Also, I've made one more harmless correction to all translation files because of this (recorded as a Translation hint #4 ​here):

4. Don't translate items starting with the # (hash) sign in contexts VBoxGlobalSettingsDlg and VBoxVMSettingsDlg, such as #general, #input and so on. They are responsible for the settings category hyper-link feature on the VM Details page and translating them will break this feature.

[Mohammed Berdai]

Arabic Translation, 25%

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

at line 1620 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

<source><unavailabie></source>

"unavailabie" is not correct.

A correct word is "unavailable".

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

at line 2228 and 2232 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

A fatal error has occured during virtual machine execution! An error has occured during virtual machine execution!

Is "occured" correct?

A correct word is "occurred".

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

at line 3087 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

you correct their settings by either choosing a differnet interface name or a different adapter attachment type.

"differnet" is not correct.

A correct word is "different".

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

at line 2881 - 2936 in VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts

An emtpy string will match any value.

"emtpy" is not correct.

A correct word is "empty".

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

toshi3_tanaka, thank you a lot for these corrections! You have a hawk eye, please keep going :)

medber and adrian5632, thank you for providing translations! Now please license them properly to let us include your translations to the prodict (details are ​here. Medber, this also relates to you because in your previous license statement you didn't mention your full name (it must match the translator name in the .ts file!) and we don't have your e-mail (either put it here in the encrypted form or send to info{at}innotek.de if you want to keep privacy).

All language files have been transparently updated to correct English typos found by toshi3_tanaka, a couple of phrases with corrected English spelling have been marked "untranslated" (to make sure you check them). Arabic and Polish languages have been added to SVN.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

The Japanese language (VirtualBox_ja_JP.ts) translation attached here by Toshimitsu Tanaka is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to toshi3_tanaka:

The Japanese language (VirtualBox_ja_JP.ts) translation attached here by Toshimitsu Tanaka is published under the terms of the MIT license.

I have a small question: should the language code be ja_JP but not just ja? The difference is simple: the latter (generic) form will be used as a fall-back for ja_XX locales in case if there is no exact ja_XX translation; the former (specific) will only be used for the ja_JP locale. So the actual question is: can your translation be used as a fall-back for Japanese speaking territories other than Japan?

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

rename ja_JP to ja

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

OK,I changed "ja_JP" to "ja".

The Japanese language (qt_ja.ts and VirtualBox_ja.ts) translation attached here by Toshimitsu Tanaka is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

I also emptied "country name" in "VirtualBox_ja.ts".

Please delete "qt_ja_JP.ts" from SVN.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to toshi3_tanaka:

I also emptied "country name" in "VirtualBox_ja.ts". Please delete "qt_ja_JP.ts" from SVN.

Done. Japanese is now in SVN.

All, few other English typos have been fixed (no re-translation is necessary, just update your working copies).

[adrian5632]

My real name is: Adrian Łubik. I'm translating VirtualBox in polish and the license of the translation is GPL

[Achim Hasenmueller]

Replying to adrian5632:

My real name is: Adrian Łubik. I'm translating VirtualBox in polish and the license of the translation is GPL

If you want your translation to be included with VirtualBox, then you have to license it under the MIT license or alternatively sign the innotek Contributor Agreement.

[adrian5632]

"If you want your translation to be included with VirtualBox, then you have to license it under the MIT license or alternatively sign the innotek Contributor Agreement." OK, as U wish :P Now the translation is MIT licensed :P

[igorbounov]

The updated VirtualBox_ru.ts file attached, 100% done. Some typos are corrected.

[bluebat]

The traditional chinese (zh_TW) translation attached here by OSSII(OSS Integral Institute Co, Ltd.) is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

typo fix

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

All latest updates have been incorporated and resynchronized with sources. A few new translatable items has added due to slight UI changes. You can update them now or wait for some more upcoming UI updates.

I've noticed that some recently attached translations were outdated (did not include the latest changes from SVN). PLEASE remember to take a latest SVN copy and merge it with your recent translation before attaching the latter here. Solving conflicts in all translations on my side is a) unsafe because I can read only two languages and b) very time consuming. So, please review the current translations for mistakes (again, by comparing your local copies with current SVN versions).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Japanese and Polish translations are merged to SVN.

adrian5632, please remove the _PL suffix from file names you attach here, since we decided not to use the country code for Polish (as you may have noticed, files in SVN already end with _pl, not with pl_PL). Not a big problem of course, but will save me a bit of time I spend renaming your files :)

[Ciro Mattia Gonano]

Italian !VirtualBox_it.ts and qt_it.ts updated to 100% Should I remove the "obsolete" strings?

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Russian and Italian translations are merged to SVN.

lestat, yes, as long as you don't want to keep the old phrasing for further reference, you can remove "obsolete" items while translating. Keep in mind that there is no UI for doing that in Qt Designer -- you can manually edit the .ts file and delete all <message> elements that contain <translation type="obsolete"> elements. No need to do it right now because I will remove obsolete translations from all files before the 1.4.0 release.

[Xeph]

I'm going to translation VirtualBox to korean.

is there any necessarily information about translation except ​http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Translating ? if so, comment me thru <e-mail removed>

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Xeph, you are welcome! ​http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Translating should describe everything you need to know . If you have questions, feel free to ask here. Please pay special attention to ​this section to not forget about licensing your translation when it is done.

By the way, what is the correct language code for Korean? ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes shows ko, but I see kr in your e-mail.

[Alex Eftimie]

Sorry about this mistake I've made, my latest upload was VirtualBox_ro.zip (35.4 kB) - added by alexef on 05/03/07 17:36:09. 100% Up to date, with wrong file name (missing .ts[.zip])) and it seems like it wasn't commited to SVN.

VirtualBox_ro.zip must be removed from this page, I shall update the current translation from SVN and upload it right here.

Thanks

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Chinese/Taiwan and Romanian translations are merged to SVN.

[jean-jacques]

After downloading the last sources, I have seen that some textes are no more translated. This concern mainly the main menu of the VM.

on the rigth side of the main menue the short cute are english (eg. Host+F).

Within the status bar, the "host key" is printed out as "Rigth Ctrl", for previous version this was correct.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to jean-jacques:

After downloading the last sources, I have seen that some textes are no more translated. This concern mainly the main menu of the VM.

What texts exactly do you mean?

on the rigth side of the main menue the short cute are english (eg. Host+F).

You must have forgotten. It has always been like that -- Host+<Letter> shortcuts in the VM menu are not translatable in the current version (for technical reasons).

Within the status bar, the "host key" is printed out as "Rigth Ctrl", for previous version this was correct.

I think "Right Ctrl" is more correct than the previous "Control_R" (this is our attempt to workaround broken keysym names in Xlib). Anyway, you will be able to translate these key names now according to typical keyboard caps in your country (for X11 only; in Win32 key names are properly translated by the system).

Please hold on with any translations, language updates are being gathered to.

[victor]

The Chinese (zh_CN) translation attached here by Victor is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[jean-jacques]

A new version of the french translation is added, the previous version was not put to the svn !

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Chinese/China and French translations are merged to SVN.

[jean-jacques]

Some textes are not present into the language files: After creating a VM and while starting it for the first time, a wizard is launched. All textes for the first and following windows are not contained within the *.ts files

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

all,

For the upcoming 1.4.0 release, a couple of new UIs have been added and a couple of UIs have been updated. You are welcome to update your translations. All the translation files have been resynchronized with the sources and merged to SVN.

If you want to have your translation updated in 1.4.0, please keep in mind that the release of 1.4.0 is scheduled for the beginning of the next week.

P.S. German and Russian translations will be updated by innotek.

[Erico Mendonca]

I started the translation process for Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) a couple of days ago, currently at about 80%.

I shall finish, test it and hopefully upload it this weekend.

[Erico Mendonca]

All right, here it goes. The translation for pt_BR is 100% done, and was tested and revised on yesterday's SVN build.

The Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation attached here by Erico Mendonca is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Thanks to everybody for his/her contribution!

Updates to Romanian, Spanish, French, Japanese are merged to SVN. The Brazilian Portuguese translation has been added to SVN.

lestat, you've attached a too old translation file (dated 13.04.07). Please take a fresh !VirtualBox_it.ts from SVN and update it instead.

docca, thank you very much for a complete translation to the new language! BTW, I've changed the language/country name pairs in the @@@ context, I think it's better now.

[Ciro Mattia Gonano]

Replying to dmik:

lestat, you've attached a too old translation file (dated 13.04.07). Please take a fresh !VirtualBox_it.ts from SVN and update it instead.

sorry, now it should be ok!

[Erico Mendonca]

dmik, there are two entries for Brazilian Portuguese in the language table at the beginning of this ticket. Also, "Portuguese" is spelled wrong.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

lestat, the new file is fully correct, thank you.

docca, there are two language/country pairs: "Português (Brasil)" for native speakers and "Portuguese (Brazil)" as an international (English) variant. Which one of them is wrong?

[Erico Mendonca]

Replying to dmik:

docca, there are two language/country pairs: "Português (Brasil)" for native speakers and "Portuguese (Brazil)" as an international (English) variant. Which one of them is wrong?

Actually I'm talking about the list of translators at the beginning of this ticket :)

There are two entries for pt_BR, one for my translation and one for KhaoticMind's translation. I believe the one for KhaoticMind should be removed, as mine is already completed.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Ah I definitely misread you :) Ok, corrected.

[Alex Eftimie]

Congrats for the 1.4.0 release!
I just have uploaded my latest update to the Romanian translation and I'm wondering if it would get into the downloadable 1.4 packages or any update from now on applies only to the next (1.4.2?) version.
Thanks

[cromo]

There is a misspelling in polish translation. Should be "Odśwież", not "Odświerz".

[cromo]

Make sure you correct all the occurences of this misspelling, as I noticed at least two.

[adrian5632]

@cromo Yes, I know and I've corrected it, although I've added some strings. Can U write to me on <removed>?

[ozzii]

Hi all, I'm going to start translation into Serbian

[qzy]

Hi there, I'm starting the hungarian translation part.

[Daniel Nylander]

I have started to work on the Swedish translation (language code 'sv').

[fdr]

Replying to jd:

• My real name is Joaquín Duo
• I'm translating VirtualBox in Spanish;
• My submitted translation (up to 2007-04-15) is currently available as an attachment to ticket #234
• I release my translation under the terms of the MIT license.

PD: I hope next time it's a GPL license. :-D

There is a misspelling. Should be "especificado", not "espeficicado" (at line 1966 in VirtualBox_es.ts).

[Joaquin Duo]

Replying to fdr:

There is a misspelling. Should be "especificado", not "espeficicado" (at line 1966 in VirtualBox_es.ts).

Thanks for you help! I have changed it on my translation. It will be updated the next time i upload the file. Cheers!

[Daniel Nylander]

The Swedish translation is progressing fast and is ready to be committed. It is not 100% complete but I hope to get some time soon to finish it.

The files are located here ​http://home.danielnylander.se/translations/virtualbox/

[kangmin]

The korean Language Translaiton complet!! I had attached the file right above It contains VirtualBox_ko.qm & qt_ko.qm files Just unzip to nls folder and use it... that's alll

VirtualBox is the great thigs!!

Form korea by Kang Min Choul

[peremen]

Replying to dmik:

Xeph, you are welcome! ​http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Translating should describe everything you need to know . If you have questions, feel free to ask here. Please pay special attention to ​this section to not forget about licensing your translation when it is done.

By the way, what is the correct language code for Korean? ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes shows ko, but I see kr in your e-mail.

I have talked former maintainer Xeph and I will take the maintenance of Korean translation files. A new Korean translated .ts file will go soon.

[kangmin]

Hi dimk!!

I'm not Xeph, I'm kang min choul and korean ISO code is ko kr it's just a domain name, for my mail account server adress

I'm late for Xeph, but if you want I can send a VirtualBox_ko.tsto you right now ... have a good time! and thaks for share like this great tool

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to yeager:

The Swedish translation is progressing fast and is ready to be committed. It is not 100% complete but I hope to get some time soon to finish it.

Yeager, thank you very much for your contribution! The .zip file you attached here looks OK but you haven't licensed your work for us so I cannot include it into the code base. Please do it as described ​here. Don't forget that we need your full name and a valid e-mail (you can send it privately if you don't want to publish it).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

kangmin, peremen and Xeph, Thank you a lot for your efforts, but could you please coordinate your work? For now, I only have .qm files from kangmin, which is not acceptable because we need the .ts sources. I also know that Xeph started working on the translation several weeks ago and probably made some progress. There is no need to do the same work twice, so please contact each other (you can do it right here) to join your efforts and give us a single translation in the .ts format.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to Romanian and Polish translations are merged to SVN.

[Daniel Nylander]

The Swedish (sv) translation attached here by Daniel Nylander is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[peremen]

Replying to dmik:

kangmin, peremen and Xeph, Thank you a lot for your efforts, but could you please coordinate your work? For now, I only have .qm files from kangmin, which is not acceptable because we need the .ts sources. I also know that Xeph started working on the translation several weeks ago and probably made some progress. There is no need to do the same work twice, so please contact each other (you can do it right here) to join your efforts and give us a single translation in the .ts format.

I met Xeph on IRC a week ago, and he said that he lost all his works by accident, and he wants me to maintain the translation.(I have a log for that time) I made ts file and it is undergoing tests for several Korean users. It will go soon. Btw, is there any method to contact with kangmin except this space?

[kangmin]

peremen, sorry about Xeph's accident

but I did not konw all about this!! there is is only reason, when i visit first time this place there is any tranclated korean souces and I start translate this work and complet. that's it!!

[peremen]

Replying to kangmin:

peremen, sorry about Xeph's accident

but I did not konw all about this!! there is is only reason, when i visit first time this place there is any tranclated korean souces and I start translate this work and complet. that's it!!

Well, I reviewed through your translation, but I think your translation is immature. Although you claimed that you completed the translation, lots of part of .ts file is remaining as '?', which means untranslated. I will post my .ts file, please compare it with yours.

[kangmin]

oh, I know that! when it open wiht Qt Linguist have a lots of ? marks. but it translated complet. right beacuse I translate with Qt Linguist and text editor[editplus] to easy translate! I don't konw why it remain ? mark. if you see all of contats my .ts file wiht Qt Linguist or editplus, you can see it tranlated complet. It is impotant only to use Qt Linguist? or my .ts file is correct. thanks...

[kangmin]

<img src="​http://www.playnow.co.kr/link/24b8b11fa98a/2007-06-16_083713.jpg" border="0" >

as you can see there is no erro When it apply to Virtualbox. any other place thanks for your attention

[peremen]

Replying to kangmin:

<img src="​http://www.playnow.co.kr/link/24b8b11fa98a/2007-06-16_083713.jpg" border="0" >

as you can see there is no erro When it apply to Virtualbox. any other place thanks for your attention

Well, I mentioned not only error, but also quality. I reviewed your translation, but quality wasn't so good :( By the way, can you talk me with email? Your English is hard to read, so I want to talk with you in Korean. Mine is <removed>.

[Erico Mendonca]

Replying to kangmin:

oh, I know that! when it open wiht Qt Linguist have a lots of ? marks. but it translated complet. right beacuse I translate with Qt Linguist and text editor[editplus] to easy translate! I don't konw why it remain ? mark. <snip>

Just a tip: you need to press CTRL+ENTER on each translated string to mark it as translated, or else it will remain with a question mark. Also, try to use Qt Linguist's features to check the assigned key accelerators and punctuation marks. These features help maintain the consistency of your translation quite a bit.

[kangmin]

Thanks for your help I can finish my job

there's some missing char. like comma...

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The Swedish translation is added to SVN.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Dear kangmin and peremen. Great, now I have two different Korean translations :) To be serious, I don't have any knowledge of Korean at all in order to choose a better one. So, please give me a single version. I suggest you that peremen will take the kangmin's .ts files, check and make necessary corrections when it is essential. And yes, you can now contact each other directly by e-mail, so please continue the Korean translation related discussion in private. Thank you.

[peremen]

Replying to dmik:

Dear kangmin and peremen. Great, now I have two different Korean translations :) To be serious, I don't have any knowledge of Korean at all in order to choose a better one. So, please give me a single version. I suggest you that peremen will take the kangmin's .ts files, check and make necessary corrections when it is essential. And yes, you can now contact each other directly by e-mail, so please continue the Korean translation related discussion in private. Thank you.

Finally, kangmin said that he will give up and let me to maintain translation. Also I finished Korean translation file, which is my own work. File will go soon.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The Korean translation is added to SVN.

[hron84]

The Hungarian (ko) translation attached here by George Hron (aka hron84) is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[hron84]

The Hungarian (hu) translation attached here by George Hron (aka hron84) is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[JJK]

The Finnish (fi) translation attached here by Jarno Kiuttu is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

hron84 and JJK, thank you very much for your work. However, I have a few remarks on your translations.

To both hron84 and JJK: you took too old translation templates, so your translations are slightly outdated -- you will have to download your .ts files directly from SVN once they appear there and re-translate outdated translation items.

To horn84: please use Qt Linguist 3.x if possible -- I'm not completely sure that Qt Linguist 4 generates 100% backward compatible .ts files, so something may theoretically not work. Also, I stripped off the _HU suffix from file names and removed the country name because it seemed to me that Hungarian language is the same everywhere and doesn't vary depending on the country of usage. If you disagree, please object here. Also, the translation file you've attached contains "Garami Gábor" as the author which doesn't match George Hron. I cannot accept your translation until I've got some reasonable explanation.

To JJK: It looks like you used some text editor to translate the .ts file directly instead of Qt Linguist -- that is possible but makes your life harder. And as a result, there are some errors in your translation like incorrect escaping of special HTML characters (e.g. line #116 in VirtualBox_fi.ts) that results into English text being used instead of the tranlsated one for those items. My suggestion is that you start from the beginning: take a fresh copy of VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts, open it in the Qt Designer and copy-paste there all translations you've already made from the old VirtualBox_fi.ts. Taking into account that you've just started your translation this should be the easiest way to fix all those incorrect escaping errors. Agree?

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

hron84, I also see a message from qzy dated 06/10/07 18:19:37 here where he/she states he/she has already started to translate. Are you aware of that?

[Daniel Nylander]

Swedish is now 100%.

[hron84]

Replying to dmik:

hron84, I also see a message from qzy dated 06/10/07 18:19:37 here where he/she states he/she has already started to translate. Are you aware of that?

I saw it, but i'mn't sure, he/she is working on this really. I sent it, but if he/she send a translation sometime, i cancel my translation, and I accept his/her precedence.

[hron84]

Replying to dmik:

hron84 and JJK, thank you very much for your work. However, I have a few remarks on your translations.

To both hron84 and JJK: you took too old translation templates, so your translations are slightly outdated -- you will have to download your .ts files directly from SVN once they appear there and re-translate outdated translation items.

Sorry, i forgotten update the template

To hron84: please use Qt Linguist 3.x if possible -- I'm not completely sure that Qt Linguist 4 generates 100% backward compatible .ts files, so something may theoretically not work.

OK, i don't known this thing, i will import this to Linguist 3.x

Also, I stripped off the _HU suffix from file names and removed the country name because it seemed to me that Hungarian language is the same everywhere and doesn't vary depending on the country of usage. If you disagree, please object here.

It's true. But i choose to use the hu_HU form in two cause:

• In the world, everybody uses the hu_HU form to describe a hungarian language, such as locales.
• In the wiki, you wrote the my_MY form, and i followed the description.

Also, the translation file you've attached contains "Garami Gábor" as the author which doesn't match George Hron. I cannot accept your translation until I've got some reasonable explanation.

OK, we are working together, and i forgotten update the header. I'm really sorry, it's my mistake.

Sincerelly: Hron84

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to hron84:

hron84, I also see a message from qzy dated 06/10/07 18:19:37 here where he/she states he/she has already started to translate. Are you aware of that?

I saw it, but i'mn't sure, he/she is working on this really. I sent it, but if he/she send a translation sometime, i cancel my translation, and I accept his/her precedence.

I see. No problem to take your translation if qzy doesn't show up within the next few days.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to hron84:

OK, i don't known this thing, i will import this to Linguist 3.x

Thank you.

Also, I stripped off the _HU suffix from file names and removed the country name because it seemed to me that Hungarian language is the same everywhere and doesn't vary depending on the country of usage. If you disagree, please object here.

It's true. But i choose to use the hu_HU form in two cause:

• In the world, everybody uses the hu_HU form to describe a hungarian language, such as locales.
• In the wiki, you wrote the my_MY form, and i followed the description.

Yes, but it's just a general template. Anyway what stands behind using "hu" instead of "hu_HU": !VirtualBox_hu.ts is more generic, it will be chosen for (possibly custom) locales like hu_EN, hu_WHATEVER etc. while !Virtualhu_hu_HU will be used only when the locale is hu_HU exactly.

Also, the translation file you've attached contains "Garami Gábor" as the author which doesn't match George Hron. I cannot accept your translation until I've got some reasonable explanation.

OK, we are working together, and i forgotten update the header. I'm really sorry, it's my mistake.

Then, specify both names there (comma separated). And I will also need a license statement from Garami Gábor here as well (in the same way you did it here).

So, I'm waiting for an updated translation in Qt 3.x format from you. Please merge the current SVN version of VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts with your translation after you convert it to Qt 3.x (using some standalone file merge tool) -- it will show you all places you need to correct.

[JJK]

Replying to dmik:

To JJK: It looks like you used some text editor to translate the .ts file directly instead of Qt Linguist -- that is possible but makes your life harder. And as a result, there are some errors in your translation like incorrect escaping of special HTML characters (e.g. line #116 in VirtualBox_fi.ts) that results into English text being used instead of the tranlsated one for those items. My suggestion is that you start from the beginning: take a fresh copy of VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts, open it in the Qt Designer and copy-paste there all translations you've already made from the old VirtualBox_fi.ts. Taking into account that you've just started your translation this should be the easiest way to fix all those incorrect escaping errors. Agree?

KBabel crash .ts files.

[hron84]

Replying to dmik:

Replying to hron84:

OK, i don't known this thing, i will import this to Linguist 3.x

Thank you.

Also, I stripped off the _HU suffix from file names and removed the country name because it seemed to me that Hungarian language is the same everywhere and doesn't vary depending on the country of usage. If you disagree, please object here.

It's true. But i choose to use the hu_HU form in two cause:

• In the world, everybody uses the hu_HU form to describe a hungarian language, such as locales.
• In the wiki, you wrote the my_MY form, and i followed the description.

Yes, but it's just a general template. Anyway what stands behind using "hu" instead of "hu_HU": !VirtualBox_hu.ts is more generic, it will be chosen for (possibly custom) locales like hu_EN, hu_WHATEVER etc. while !Virtualhu_hu_HU will be used only when the locale is hu_HU exactly.

OK

Also, the translation file you've attached contains "Garami Gábor" as the author which doesn't match George Hron. I cannot accept your translation until I've got some reasonable explanation.

OK, we are working together, and i forgotten update the header. I'm really sorry, it's my mistake.

Then, specify both names there (comma separated). And I will also need a license statement from Garami Gábor here as well (in the same way you did it here).

He hasn't a internet connection now, but i think he accept the license, because we are in a group. We read the how-to.

So, I'm waiting for an updated translation in Qt 3.x format from you. Please merge the current SVN version of VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts with your translation after you convert it to Qt 3.x (using some standalone file merge tool) -- it will show you all places you need to correct.

dmik, i have a one question: can you tell me any good merge tool? I don't know which merge tool is a best. And i worry about a version-copatibility too. Thankss

[hron84]

Hungarian translation update, Qt 3.x, fixed names, 86% (+2 string), not merged

[hron84]

I fixed the filenames, but i don't merged yet. I changed the author name to my name, because Garami don't want his name in the released project, because he only reviewed the stuff.

[qzy]

Replying to hron84:

Replying to dmik:

hron84, I also see a message from qzy dated 06/10/07 18:19:37 here where he/she states he/she has already started to translate. Are you aware of that?

I saw it, but i'mn't sure, he/she is working on this really. I sent it, but if he/she send a translation sometime, i cancel my translation, and I accept his/her precedence.

Well, asking me first at least would have made it possible to avoid working line-by-line. Anyway, yes, I've done a part of it and was willing to finish it this weekend. However the only thing that counts is to get a good translation. I'll look at yours and if there's anything I can add, I will.

Regards, Balint

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The Hungarian and Finnish translations are added to SVN. Updates to the Swedish translation are merged to SVN.

Well done, JJK and hron84! Please keep in mind that in order to continue/update your translations, you need to download the SVN copies of your translation files from this site and continue on them, not on your local copies you attached here!

hron84, I resynchronized your translation with the current sources before adding it, so you don't have to merge manually which added some new translation items and rendered some old ones 'obsolete' (you will see it in the Qt Linguist). From now on you can use any subversion GUI client as a merge tool (to merge your local changes with the current SVN version of the .ts file before attaching a new version here), but just in case here is a good standalone merge tool: ​http://www.guiffy.com.

yeager, I've found that your translation is also not made in the Qt Linguist 3. Accidentally I've run it through the Qt Linguist myself (so it's now correct) but please use only the Qt Linguist 3 application to update the .ts file in the future to make sure it conforms to the format expected by Qt 3.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

hron84, please also drop a letter to info/innotek.de with your e-mail address.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Added ​Translation Hint #6:

In general, it's not recommended to translate Ctrl+<latin_letter> shortcuts (for example, Ctrl+S used to open the VM Settings Dialog) because they are intended to be language neutral and should have the same action regardless of the selected UI language. Translate them only if there is a very special reason to do so in your language; otherwise simply leave the original. Note that the action name starting with a different letter or having a different underscored (Alt+<any_letter>) accelerator in your language is not a valid reason to translate the corresponding Ctrl+<latin_letter> shortcut.

So, it is recommended to revert Ctrl+<latin_letter> shortcuts to original values (from !VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts) for those who have translated them.

[hron84]

Okay. Dmik, i think, qzy merge our translation to an one translation.

I have an idea:

qzy: Mark me and you as an author in the right place in the .ts file, if you found any usable translation. If you don't use my work, it'sn't needed.

Replying to qzy:

Replying to hron84:

Replying to dmik:

hron84, I also see a message from qzy dated 06/10/07 18:19:37 here where he/she states he/she has already started to translate. Are you aware of that?

I saw it, but i'mn't sure, he/she is working on this really. I sent it, but if he/she send a translation sometime, i cancel my translation, and I accept his/her precedence.

Well, asking me first at least would have made it possible to avoid working line-by-line. Anyway, yes, I've done a part of it and was willing to finish it this weekend. However the only thing that counts is to get a good translation. I'll look at yours and if there's anything I can add, I will.

Regards, Balint

[hron84]

Replying to dmik:

hron84, please also drop a letter to info/innotek.de with your e-mail address.

Mail has been sent. it's a GMail address, i hope, it's good (such as from spam aspect)

[JJK]

finnish translated 50

[ozzii]

Serbian translated to ~60%

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Finnish and French translations are merged to SVN.

[Bc. Jan Kalab]

I'm going to transtale to Czech.

[Bc. Jan Kalab]

Replying to Pitel:

I'm going to transtale to Czech.

My email is <removed> and have currently over 1/3 done.

[lxndr]

I'll be starting translations from English into Dutch.

[lxndr]

Replying to lxndr:

I'll be starting translations from English into Dutch.

Just for the record:

Lxndr says: "The Dutch (nl_NL) translation to be attached here by me (Alexander L. de Goeij) is published under the terms of the MIT license and as such may be freely (ab)used by innotek."#

[cromo]

There is a simple bug in localizing code for "Show Log" menu entry. The code points to a Virtual Disk Manager's "Release" key shortcut, instead of its own.

[cromo]

Also, I recommend to change the Ctrl+S shortcut to Ctrl-P (more common for Preferences dialogs) and use Ctrl+S to start selected machine.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

lxndr, thank you for joining the translation team! Please note that your file should have a _nl suffix, not nl_NL -- unless there are various flavors of Dutch that may not be used one in place of another.

cromo, thanks for your report, but I don't see the problem: "Show Log" and "Release" actions are placed in different top-level windows so their shortcuts cannot interfere with each other. About Ctrl+S vs Ctrl-P: the latter is commonly used for the Print action I'd say (and I prefer to have it reserved for that purpose). I also don't see a big need to assign Ctrl+S to the "Start VM" action because when you want to start a VM, the VM list is normally in focus, where the Enter key will act as a "shortcut".

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Spanish translation are merged to SVN.

[lxndr]

Replying to dmik:

lxndr, thank you for joining the translation team! Please note that your file should have a _nl suffix, not nl_NL -- unless there are various flavors of Dutch that may not be used one in place of another.

cromo, thanks for your report, but I don't see the problem: "Show Log" and "Release" actions are placed in different top-level windows so their shortcuts cannot interfere with each other. About Ctrl+S vs Ctrl-P: the latter is commonly used for the Print action I'd say (and I prefer to have it reserved for that purpose). I also don't see a big need to assign Ctrl+S to the "Start VM" action because when you want to start a VM, the VM list is normally in focus, where the Enter key will act as a "shortcut".

Hi dmik my e-mail address you can publish, I used nl_NL since ispell and the like use it like that as well, I can change to _nl if that would better correspond to your needs. A sort of dutch is also spoken in Belgium in which case nl_BE is used but most of the time this division is ommitted. Your call!

See ya

[cromo]

dmik, I noticed the Enter way of lunching VMs after posting. Anyway it would be nice to put 'Enter' string next to the 'Start' entry in Machine menu, so the user can see which key is used to start the machine. Also, there is no translation string available for "Other/Unknown" Guest OS type.

[cromo]

The last paragraph at the last page of the New VM wizzard gets cut here. My translation of this paragraph is a bit longer than the original string but is cut quite a bit more, so I guess that english translation is cut, too.

[cromo]

I just noticed that the Ctrl-Alt-D shortcut that Vbox uses to discard a snapshot interferes with KDE/Gnome, where it is set as a Show/Hide Dekstop shortcut.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

cromo, the last paragraph thing is a known issue (will be fixed soon). The Ctrl-Alt-D shortcut has been already replaced in the SVN tree. Putting Enter to the Start action title is not actually correct, because it's not a true shortcut (and cannot be such) -- it acts only when the VM list is in focus.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

cromo, thank you very much! However, I cannot use your translation right now because I need a confirmation from Adrian Łubik (adrian5632) that he agrees and your translation is a real improvement over his one. Also, I need your full name mentioned in the licensing statement you made above and your e-mail (privately to info/innotek.de if you don't want to publish it here).

[cromo]

I already tried to contact Adrian before, but he's probably out for his holidays or sth as he didn't reply yet. I'll ask him to comment it here whenever he's back. Regarding the licensing statement: I, Dawid Wrobel (<e-mail removed>) hereby agree for this translation to be used by Innotek GmbH under the terms of MIT license.

[cromo]

Still no reply. Is there any other way I can prove that my translation is superior to previous?

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Ok, we've been waiting for quite some time now; moreover your translation looks more like a serious update than a complete rewrite to me (changeset:4139), so Adrian should have no reason to complain. I've merged your version to SVN.

P.S. You may want to use pure Latin spelling for your names in the .ts file since there still can be systems that only have ASCII + the national character set (which will make your names hardly readable there).

[cromo]

Yeah, a serious update is a better description indeed. Regarding the names, the 'ó' sign should be present in any charset regardless its coding, but 'Ł' will only be readable in UTF or ISO8859-2, so I'll change that into 'L' in next update of the translation, which is actually on its way.

Also, I was wondering about if the debug strings should be translated at all. These are only useful for either advanced users or developers, and while the former will understand the 'callee', 'return code' etc. strings, the latter owill struggle with understanding what do these localized strings mean if they were posted to a mailing list or something. Some of such users would probably want to translate them back into english and it would confuse the devs even more. So what I'd do is to use only english for these rarely shown debug strings.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

There is no 'ó' in the ASCII character set (characters 32-127) and I may assure you that there are 8-bit code pages that don't contain it in the upper part (128-255) -- for example, all Russian code pages. Anyway, I don't insist of course, it's just a suggestion.

About the "debug" strings: it's up to you to decide. Your logic makes sense (posting to mailing lists), however it will not be difficult to guess because the format of the error message is always the same. Most translators translate these strings as well.

[cromo]

OK, I didn't know about such coding pages. Will remove it with next update.

Another suggestion: I think that every translator would appreciate if we were told a week in advance about a planned release.

[hron84]

I want to ask a question: What is a state of hungarian translation? qzy has sent a final translation? Because he told him, he can be done in a week, when i mailing with him. If not, i will continue translation and i send a finally, but i want a response. What do you want, what i do?

dmik, you don't send mail to me, what a problem? <e-mail removed>

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

hron84, the state of the translation corresponds to what you see at the top -- i.e. the SVN repo contains the last version you attached here. You are free to finish your translation, I got nothing from qzy so far.

[hron84]

Replying to dmik:

hron84, the state of the translation corresponds to what you see at the top -- i.e. the SVN repo contains the last version you attached here. You are free to finish your translation, I got nothing from qzy so far.

dmik, thanks a reply. OK, then I start finish the translation (i'm in 759/851 state). I merged it with the SVN VirtualBox_xx_YY.ts file. I need circa a week to complete the translation and view over it.

[Bc. Jan Kalab]

Czech translation finished!

The Czech (cs) translation attached here by Jan Kaláb is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The Czech is added to SVN. Thank you very much, Pitel!

Updates to the Italian translation are merged to SVN. lestat, thank you and please don't forget to zip your .ts files.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Expecting the new release of VirtualBox, all language files have been resynchronized with the current sources and merged to SVN. This gives quite a bit of new strings to translate. The new release is planned next week, so please try to update your translations ASAP. Thank you very much.

P.S. Note that you must download (checkout) a .ts file for your language from SVN and continue your work on it, not on your local copy!

[cromo]

"<p>You didn't attach a hard disk to the new virtual machine. The machine will not be able to boot unless you attach a hard disk with a guest operating system or some other bootable media to it later using the machine settings dialog or the First Run Wizard.</p><p>Do you want to continue?</p>" This is a new string and I don't think it's correct to say that the machine will not boot without the hard disk attached, as you can also boot from network, cd and floppy. Or am I wrong?

[cromo]

Also, the "Please note that debugging requires special knowledge and tools, so it is recommended to press <b>OK</b> now." sentence sounds kinda... insulting. Wouldn't it be better if the message said: "However, if you are not going to debug the machine it is recommended to press <b>OK</b> now."?

[cromo]

"Valid values are integer numbers in range from <tt>0</tt> to <tt>0xFFFF</tt>." This should rather be "Valid values are hexadecimal numbers (...)", shouldn't it?

[Frank Mehnert]

cromo, Dmitry (our GUI expert) is currently in vacation. He will answer your comments when he is back. My two cents:

• You are right that the user can boot from other medium even if no harddisk is attachaed, most notably from network. Perhaps the string could be refined but the string also mentions that the user should attach some other bootable medium using the settings dialog or the first run wizard. Setting up a server for network requires some more effort and is therefore not used by beginners.
• I fully agree to your remark about the debugging message.
• The values for ports are indeed integer values. The input field will accept decimal values as well. But yes, hexadecimal values are normally used for port numbers and this could be stated in the string.

Thank you for your proposals!

[cromo]

An usablitity suggestion: Host-M and Host-D key settings for opening up the Machine and Devices menus.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

cromo, thank you for suggestions but:

• The New VM Wizard always sets the primary master hard disk as a boot device, therefore if you don't attach a hard disk in this wizard then the machine won't boot unless you go to the settings and manually select a different boot device.
• 95% of users a) use the release version of the product (where the built-in debugging tool is not available) and b) really don't know how to debug a VM. I don't think that not knowing something (especially if you don't need/want it to know, as many users do) may be called "insulting".
• Frank already answered: both decimal and hexadecimal integers are accepted, and even octal AFAIR. However, there is not much space in the instant help box so we cannot put every single detail in there.

About shortcuts: good idea but you can already do it: press Host-Home to activate the menu, then press the underscored letter (M or D in this case). Probably the information about Host-Home should appear in the message box at first run to let users know about this feature.

[cromo]

dmik and (for some of the points) frank:

• I was actually thinking that the message is wrong because it is possibile to choose the boot device by pressing the F11 key after booting up the machine no matter how the boot order is set up in VM's settings. But in general you're right, if we don't tell the average user that he didn't attach any drive, most of the time he will only get confused about hte the machine not booting.
• I still think it's rather unpolite and not assertive to say that "Hey, I am pretty sure you don't know how to do it because you'd need a lot of knowledge which most likely you don't have, so you better press that OK button and don't even try to mess around with the machine anymore'. It's up to you, I just have a feeling that majority of the users reading such message will feel a bit awkward. But it could be just me ;-)
• I asked because for the other similar help box message regarding USB vendor ID filter that only accepts hexadecimal values. However I had no idea that the serial port address field can also accept decimals and even octals. But why would one need to use theses for the serial port address which is always represented with hexadecimal value? Or did I forget about something? Anyway, it doesn't really matter.

Regarding the shortcuts - indeed, I for one had no idea about that Host-Home key combination.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

chromo, the F11 key is for advanced users who will normally ignore/suppress warning messages like that (targeted at new users in the first place). Again: when the Guru Meditation condition happens, there is nothing a regular user can do if he selects Ignore instead of OK -- this is what this message is about. USB fields are different: you can only use hex there and w/o the 0x prefix, which needs to be mentioned.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Korean, Czech, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish translations are merged to SVN (will appear within half an hour or so). Thank you guys! We're still waiting for other translators to update their languages.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

Japanese translation file update.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the French and Japanese translations are merged to SVN (will appear within some time).

[cromo]

The "Cancel" key shortcut in Existing image dialog run from New Machine Wizzard is not working.

[khiav]

86 %

[khiav]

92 %

[helix84]

Starting work on Slovak (sk) translation.

[khiav]

Fix error

[Piarres]

Starting working in Basque (eu) translation if any has start yet (first very early translation added)

[Frank Mehnert]

The next release of VirtualBox 1.5.2 will be a bugfix release only. It is expected within a very few days. Updated translations for 1.5.0 can still be considered.

[Piarres]

Baque translation update

[Pau]

Hi, from www.somgnu.cat we begin catalan translation. If someone needs contact us: info+somgnu.cat or ​http://forum.somgnu.cat

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Romanian and Korean translations are merged to SVN (will appear within some time). Thank you guys!

cromo -- thanks, you are right, but since accelerators will be removed from Cancel keys in all dialogs (since Esc is always a hard-coded shortcut for them), it's no more an issue.

khiav, thank you very much for your help. However, we cannot accept your translation right now because a) there is already a translation by OSS Integral Institute Co, Ltd. in the repository, and your translation doesn't look like an update of this translation. Please contact OSSII and collaborate with them. I can give you their e-mail if you give me yours or contact me at dmik/innotek.de. b) you didn't license your work properly (see below).

helix84, piarres, Pau, thank you for joining the team of translators, but bear in mind that we cannot use your translations (in particular, include them in the release builds) until they are properly licensed. See ​http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Translating for details.

Piarres, your translation is temporarily added to SVN (for your convenience), but once again, it's illegal to use it w/o your public permission. I also ask you to use the Qt Linguist tool for translating instead of a third-party XML editor (I've already explained why somewhere above or on the Translating page). I've corrected some issues manually this time, so please use the version from our SVN (​http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/nls/VirtualBox_eu.ts) for further translation.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

All, please note that the e-mail notification about ticket changes is currently broken (the fix is in progress), so please check this ticket on the web frequently.

[helix84]

Slovak (sk) translation 65% done

[helix84]

As I've been idle with Slovak translation for a week now, I'll better send it in. It's 65% done. qt_sk.ts also corrected.

The Slovak (sk) translation attached here by helix84 is published under the terms of the ​MIT license.

[Piarres]

The Basque (eu) translation attached here by Piarres is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Pau]

I think in two weeks the catalan translation translation will be finished. Of course:

The Catalan (ca) translation attached will be published under the terms of the ​MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The Slovak transkation is added to SVN. helix84, thank you. However, please relicense by mentioning your full name since it's the one shown in the Author field of the translation file. Otherwise it's hard to associate the person who makes the license statement with the one who is the author of the translation. Also, please use Qt Linguist version 3 instead of version 4, since the latter generates excessive content that the former may not understand.

piarres and Pau, same to both of you. Please relicense by mentioning your full name. And also give use your e-mail address (here or privately to dmik/innotek.de).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

I've corrected *all* language files so that the Cancel push button doesn't have an associated accelerator any more -- pressing ESC will act like a Cancel action in any dialog anyway. You should pick a fresh version of the .ts file for your language from SVN. Note that you don't need to retranslate the text for the Cancel button (but you are advised to check this button to make sure I didn't break anything).

[Piarres]

The Basque (eu) translation attached here by Piarres Beobide <e-mail removed> is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Polish translation are merged to SVN. The Basque translation is now approved and will appear in the next release.

[peremen]

A little, but serious error was found. Please update Korean translation asap.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Korean translation are merged to SVN. peremen, please note that I removed the Alt+C shortcut from all Cancel buttons since ESC always acts like a shortcut for the Cancel action. If you disagree, please argument here.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

victor, thank you for the update, but could you please attach a source .ts file instead of the compiled .qm file? We can't accept binary files -- there is data loss when they are compressed (by default).

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Chinese translation are merged to SVN. victor, thank you for finally providing a 100% translation and please note too that I removed the Alt+C shortcut from all Cancel buttons since ESC always acts like a shortcut for the Cancel action.

[marcelocoelho]

I've started doing the translation to Portuguese of Portugal.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Expecting the new release 1.5.2 of VirtualBox, all language files have been resynchronized with the current sources and merged to SVN.

Here is the brief list of changes in the .ts files (not really much):

• new VBox Registration dialog
• a few new key cap names
• a few minor fixes

The new release is planned within a week, so please try to update your translations ASAP. Thank you very much.

Note that you must download (checkout) a .ts file for your language from SVN and continue your work on it, not on your local copy!

[Daniel Nylander]

Swedish translation is now updated to 1.5.2.

[peremen]

As updating files deletes the previous description, I will leave the comment that Korean translation file is(and will be) released in MIT license.

[Erico Mendonca]

Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation has been updated to 1.5.2.

[victor]

Hi,dmik. It seems that the string 'Make Permanent' which should be translated is missed in the language file.

This string is located in the shared folder dialog.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

victor, thank you very much for this "last minute" observation! I have updated all translation files in the SVN so that they include this change now.

All who already attached here the newest 1.5.2 translations. I didn't process and merge your files to the SVN yet! You need to perform a simple patch to your existing translation files (see below) and reattach them again. Sorry for inconvenience, but it will be the fastest route.

The below also applies to those who already checked out .ts files earlier, before changeset:5243, and already started to translate them. In order to add the missing item to your existing .ts file, please do the following:

1. Open the .ts file in a simple text editor.
2. Search for "<name>VBoxAddSFDialog</name>" to find the proper <context> element.
3. Add the following to the end of this context (insert the given text just before the closing </context> tag of the VBoxAddSFDialog context):

       <message>
           <source>&amp;Make Permanent</source>
           <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
       </message>
   

4. Save the changes.
5. Open the .ts file in Qt Designer and translate the newly inserted item.
6. (Re-)attach the .ts file here.
7. That's all.

peremen, you are right about killing the attachment description, but please repeat your licensing statement in the ticket comment once more -- and this time mention your full name please, in the same form it is specified in the .ts file. It's a formality, but we need it. Thank you!

[hron84]

Replying to dmik: Dear Dimitry!

I will update my translation to up-to-date with SVN, but please take me a time. I doing exams, and I don't have any time. Very thanx.

Sincerelly: hron84

[peremen]

changeset:5243 patch

[peremen]

The Korean translation file, Made by Park Shinjo (peremen) is(and will be) released in MIT license.

[Toshimitsu Tanaka]

Update Japanese translation file. (for 1.5.2 and patch)

[Erico Mendonca]

Alright, I have attached the re-re-updated translation with the "Make Permanent" change for Brazilian Portuguese :) I also tweaked a couple of messages based on some feedback I received.

[victor]

Hi,dmik. It seems that the following two strings were missed also.

'restoring the virtual machine' 'saving the execution state of the virtual machine'

[Bc. Jan Kalab]

1.5.2 patched

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Czech, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian and Swedish translation are merged to SVN. Thank you guys, that was fast! :)

victor, what you mention in comment:227 is correct, however it's not GUI, it's the VirtualBox core for which the translation framework isn't fully functioning yet. Once it's done, we will inform all translators.

[JJK]

Update translate

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Finnish and Traditional Chinese are merged to SVN. Thank you JJK and bluebat.

[marcelocoelho]

New translation

[marcelocoelho]

Portuguese of Portugal has been added (hopefully in time to be in 1.5.2). Thank you docca/Erico Mendonca for having done the Portuguese of Brasil translation!

This translation, attached here by Marcelo Coelho, is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[helix84]

Any existing or future Slovak (sk) translation attached here by Ivan Masár is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The new Portuguese (Portugal) translation has been added to SVN.

marcelocoelho, thank you, good work!

The Portuguese (Portugal) and Slovak translations were approved (more than 50% done) and will appear in the next release.

[Ciro Mattia Gonano]

Updated for 1.5.2

[hron84]

Updated Hungarian translation. Some typo fixed

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the Italian and Hungarian translations are merged to SVN. Thank you lestat and hron84.

[ozzii]

The Serbian (_sr) translation attached here by me (Ozzii) is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[peremen]

Slight 1.5.2 translation update

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

The new Serbian translation has been added to SVN (no qt_sr.ts yet). Updates to the Korean translation are merged to SVN.

ozzii, thank you very much! Though you didn't provide the translation file for built-in Qt strings (qt_sr.ts). Please do it, otherwise we won't be able to include your translation into the release. Also, I assume that "ozzi" is your full name. If it's not, you will have to change it both in the .ts file and in your licensing statement you posted in comment:234.

[David Yacobus]

Anybody can share me the QT Linguist 3? Cos I cant access the download page. All i can download is the qt-win-opensource-4.3.2-mingw.

Cant I just translate the QT files directly by changing the unfinished text?

<message>

<source>Duplicate port path is entered </source> <translation type="unfinished"></translation>

</message> <message>

<source>%1 on the &lt;b&gt;%2&lt;/b&gt; page.</source> <translation type="unfinished"></translation>

</message> <message>

<source>Port %1</source> <comment>serial ports</comment> <translation type="unfinished"></translation>

</message>

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Replying to david_yacobus:

Anybody can share me the QT Linguist 3? Cos I cant access the download page. All i can download is the qt-win-opensource-4.3.2-mingw.

I believe I saw a separate free distribution of Qt Linguist for Win32. Let me check. Alternatively, you can install one of the popular Linux distributions (inside a VirtualBox VM for example) where you will find an installable package of Qt Linguist.

Cant I just translate the QT files directly by changing the unfinished text?

It's not recommended because you may accidentally break the syntax and your translation won't work properly.

[ozzii]

The Serbian (<_sr>) translation attached here by Aleksandar Milicevic is published under the terms of the MIT license.

[Daniel Nylander]

I noticed that the VirtualBox.desktop doesn't include any translations. Please add these strings (for Swedish) to the file

Comment[sv]=Kör flera virtuella system på en enda värddator

[Michael Thayer]

Replying to yeager:

I noticed that the VirtualBox.desktop doesn't include any translations. Please add these strings (for Swedish) to the file

Comment[sv]=Kör flera virtuella system på en enda värddator

Done in SVN.

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Updates to the French, Spanish and Serbian translations are merged to SVN. The Serbian translation is now approved.

jean-jacques, when you want to separate ! and ? from the preceding word, please use the   seqennce instead of the raw space char when it takes place in RichText items (i.e. items that are enclosed with <p>, <qt> and so on). This is necessary to make sure the ! or ? char doesn't get moved alone to the next line when the text is rewrapped after changing the container size. Note that in simple items (like Dialog and UI element titles) you must use the raw space char because HTML markup isn't understood there.

ozzii, please consider to write your name in Latin in the Comma-separated list of translators field because some systems may not have fonts with Cyrillic and your name will be completely unreadable in this case.

jd, please note that your translation had some syntax errors which I corrected (one translatable item was missing, a few others contained garbage in the <translation> field). Please compare your last attached .ts file with the current SVN version to see what has changed.