User:Kess/Translation

Something about the translation process of TMW.

General

To ease the work of the translators and in the end the users, please

• Strive to make all text visible to the user translateable
• Only work with complete sentences (including variables and punctuation marks)
• Refrain from ending strings with spaces
• Make almost identical strings identical
• Use a single translation system for the whole project

What is translated now

• C++ code (.cpp) files for the client

A few things that perhaps could be reworked:

• PHP code (.php) files for the web interface are translated, but not with gettext
• Move the translateable strings from the C++ header (.h) files for the client to the corresponding C++ code (.cpp) files

What is not yet translated

• Scripts
  • XML script (.xml) files for both the client and tmwserv
  • Lua script (.lua) files for tmwserv
  • Athena script (.txt) files for eAthena
  • Magic script (.conf) files for eAthena
• Other text
  • Help text (.txt) files for the client

External links

• Gettexting the scripts for Wesnoth (about · perl · python)