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How to write a translation for NumeRe

This is a short introduction in writing a translation for NumeRe. All you need is a simple text editor, the basic language files and a bunch of time. If you have open questions, please contact the administrator of this project.

Project Members:

• Adji Arioputro
• Arjun Raveendran
• Ayoub Selmi
• Erik Hänel (admin)
• Fabian Wunder
• Jonas Jansen
• Katharina
• Philipp Doblhofer
• Raphael Zehner
• Rudolf Brausemann

A translation file

A translation file contains three major parts: comments (indicated by a # at the beginning of a line), identifiers (usually in uppercase letters and at the beginning of a line) and the actual language strings (after the identifiers and a additional =, probably containing some place holders %%1%% or %%COMMON_YES_NO%%):

#This is a comment
THIS_IS_A_IDENTIFIER=This is the actual language string and a %%PLACEHOLDER%%

• Place holders containing only numbers will be replaced during the execution of NumeRe and with the relevant message part.
• The others will be replaced during language loading (at start up) with the language strings of the referenced identifiers.

NumeRe contains two major language files: <>/lang/main.nlng and <>/lang/error.nlng. The first contains all the language strings for usual interaction, whereas the second contains all error messages. There are three further files prefixed with tmpl_*.nlng. These contain templates for scripts, plugins and files. Note, that the comments in these files will be copied to the generated file.