Erik Hofman has done some further work on building and internationalization/locale infrastructure for FlightGear.
The new code supports the LANG environment variable for setting the desired language. Currently this only affects the menu system, but in the future we could internationalize other portions of the program. In $FG_ROOT/Translations there is a locale.xml file. This file maps the contents of LANG into a specific strings-<language>.xml file and could also in the future map country specific keyboard bindings, a different menu font that supports different characters, etc. To add a new language to FlightGear, you need to add a new section to Translations/locale.xml following the examples in the file itself. Then you need to provide a new Translations/strings-<language>.xml which you can copy from an existing file and then do the appropriate tranlation. I know this is just scratching the surface, but hopefully for starters, seeing the menu items in your own native language will make FlightGear just a little more comfortable. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
