wxWidgets: Translations to Other Languages

| Version: 3.2.5

Translations to Other Languages

wxWidgets uses a certain number of user-readable strings such as `"help"` or `"Load file"` which should be translated to the users language if it is different from English.

wxWidgets has built in support for internationalization (i18n from now on) which allows for this to happen automatically if the translations to the current language are available.

You may find here the list of all existing translations with the addresses of the official translators whom you should contact if you would like to submit any corrections to the translations for your language.

Also, please see How to Help if you would like to translate wxWidgets to your language if it is not mentioned here (or to help with one which already is - it is quite helpful to have several translators for one language at least for proof reading).

# Available Translations

Below is the table containing the list of languages supported by wxWidgets. The columns of this table have the obvious meaning: in each row you will see the language, the official translator (if any) for it and the status of the translations.

Please note that email addresses in the table below are intentionally invalid to foil spam robots, remove one `@` from them.

Language | Status | Translator(s)
--- | --- | ---
Afrikaans | 68% | Petri Jooste
Albanian | 75% | Besnik Bleta
Arabic | 45% | Abdullah Abouzekry
Basque | 100% | 3ARRANO Euskalgintza Taldea, Xabier Aramendi
Catalan | 65% | Pau Bosch i Crespo, Robert Millan
Chinese (simplified) | 100% | mrfx, Liu XiaoXi, Huang Jiawei, William Jiang
Chinese (traditional) | 100% | pal.tw
Czech | 100% | Vaclav Slavik, Herbert Breunung, Zbyněk Schwarz
Danish | 74% | Leif Jensen, Henrik Ræder Clausen, Morten Råbjerg Ulrich
Dutch | 100% | Patrick Hubers, Gideon van Melle, Thomas De Rocker
English (UK) | 100% | N/A
Finnish | 91% | Kaj G Backas, Lauri Nurmi, Jaakko Salli, Elias Julkunen, Jani Kinnunen
French (standard) | 96% | Stephane Junique, Lionel Allorge, Gilles Guyot
Galician | 76% | Leandro Regueiro, Adrián González Alba
German | 100% | Daniel Reith, Gerhard Gruber, Stefan Hedemann, Dr. Detlev Reymann, Mark Johnson, Martin Jost, Herbert Breunung, Ch. Buck, Max Christian Pohle, Thomas Krebs
Greek | 73% | Tsolakos Stavros, Nassos Yiannopoulos
Hindi | 83% | Dhananjaya Sharma, Priyank Bolia
Hungarian | 76% | Végh János Dr.
Indonesian | 100% | Bambang Purnomosidi D. P., Rahmat Bambang
Italian | 100% | Mattia Barbon, Marco Cavallini, (Koan Software), Stefano
Japanese | 97% | James Bishop, Hiroshi Saito, Suzumizaki-Kimitaka, Y. KABA.
Korean | 85% | Sungkee Jung
Latvian | 90% | Lauris Bukshis
Lithuanian | 15% | Pieter
Malay | 89% | Mahrazi Mohd Kamal
Nepali | 100% | Him Prasad Gautam
Norwegian Bokmal | 74% | Hans F. Nordhaug
Polish | 94% | Piotr Mackowiak, Janusz Piwowarski, ABX, Michał Trzebiatowski, Grzegorz Zlotowicz
Portuguese (pt) | 89% | Bernardo Santos Wernesback, Mario Pereira, Antonio Cardoso Martins, Carlos Gonçalves
Portuguese (pt_BR) | 100% | E.A. Tacao, José Eduardo de Carvalho Diniz, Adiel Mittmann, Allann Jones, Felipe
Romanian | 100% | Cătălin Răceanu, Adrian Hăisan, Manuel Ciosici
Russian | 74% | Dennis Prochko, Roman Rolinsky, Vadim Zeitlin, Andrew V. Samoilov
Slovak | 74% | Ivan Masar
Slovenian | 97% | Roman Plevel, Martin Srebotnjak
Spanish | 89% | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia, JSJ, Francisco Vila, Adrián González Alba
Swedish | 98% | Jonas Rydberg, Kaj G Backas
Tamil | 100% | DINAKAR T.D.
Turkish | 100% | Hakki Dogusan, Kaya Zeren
Ukrainian | 100% | Eugene Manko, Yuri Chornoivan, Ylia K
Valencian (ca@valencia) | 65% | Robert Millan
Vietnamese | 100% | Tran Ngoc Quan

# How to Help

wxWidgets uses the standard GNU gettext tools for i18n so if you are already familiar with them you shouldn't have any problems with working on wxWidgets translations.

Here are the steps you should follow:

1. Get the latest version of the file `locale/wxstd.pot` from the wxWidgets source tree: if you're using git you should already have it. Otherwise you can always retrieve it directly from the git repository: locale/wxstd.pot.
2. Initialize an `XY.po` file for your language by using the command `msginit -l XY` in the same folder where you placed `wxstd.pot`. The `"XY"` is the 2 letter ISO 639-2 language code for your language. Initialization can be also done using e.g. Poedit (see next item).
3. Translate the strings in this file using either your favourite text editor or a specialized tool such as Vaclav Slavik's excellent poEdit utility.
4. Verify that your translations can at least be compiled (even if they are yet incomplete) by running `msgfmt -vc XY.po` command: please note that you must use the `-c` option. In particular, please fill the header fields because `msgfmt` doesn't accept the default values for them.
5. Send the finished translation to Vadim Zeitlin and it will be added to the next wxWidgets release or snapshot.

In addition, please consider subscribing to the very low volume wxWidgets translators mailing list on which the news especially important for the translators are announced.

Thank you in advance for your help!