Adding a small piece of detail to Ivan's excellent explanation - You will also need to change the resource langauge ID when starting the translation. These come after the "LANGUAGE" directive. English resources will typically have "LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT". If you are going to do German, you will need LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_DEFAULT for most cases and for the Germany's German version.Look at the programs directory, most programs can be translated. You're usually looking for a De.rc file, if it's missing, make a second copy of the En.rc file, and call it De.rc. Now translate the strings in the file. You then have to edit the header file, this may be another rc file. In can case you can find the file by running grep En.rc * in the programs directory. Open the file, and add #include "De.rc" in alphabetical order in the list of language rc files. Once you've done this, make a patch, so your work can be easily applied to the wine source tree, a howto is at http://www.winehq.com/site/sending_patches. Also note that quite a few dlls need translating too. The file may not always be En.rc, for example in dlls/commdlg it's called cdlg_En.rc Finally, one important thing is keeping the translations up to date, so you should update the translation every time there is a change in the english resource file. Don't forget to check that the existing translations are up to date and correct. Once you've done a patch, send it, in the email body or as an attachment, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This should give you plenty of work for now :-)
Ivan.
If you want to go into the details of creating dialects, for example, because a certain term is said differently in Swiszerland than in Germany, you will need to set a different sublang for it (SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS in this case). All sublanguages are defined in include/winnt.h. If you do decide to go into sublangs, make sure that SUBLANG_DEFAULT always exists.
Also, when you translate menus and other UI texts, you may come across an apersand in the text ("&Ok"). This marks where the underline goes when the text is displayed (for keyboard shortcuts). Move it to whatever seems apropriate to you, but make sure that the same menu doesn't have two entries with the same character underlined.
Last (and least), I don't think accelerators are used today in any of the builtin winelib apps. If you happen to come across them, however, let this list know and we'll instruct you how to handle those.
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/
