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Want ExpanDrive in Your Favorite Language?

Jon Shea September 9th, 2008

Then send us a translation!

As Jeff mentioned previously, ExpanDrive 1.2.11 is ready for localization. There is a folder called ExampleLanguage.lproj in the Resources folder of the ExpanDrive bundle that contains the all the relevant .string files in English. All told, there are probably less than 1000 words.

At Magnetk, we love languages. Unfortunately, the only language that Jeff and I have studied formally is Latin, and Latin doesn’t even have words for most of the the things in ExpanDrive. So we’re going to have to depend on volunteers to help us make translations. We’ll happily send a 5-pack of licenses to anyone that donates a translation.

Additionally, inspired by Mike Lee, we’ll give a free site license to any reasonably sized not-for-profit or academic institution that would like to translate ExpanDrive.

Special thanks to Jannis Leidel for translating ExpanDrive into German translation.

Tags: localization ExpanDrive

CasperT

Danish version: http://www.mediafire.com/?blbacpadz1a
http://monsterzz.info Gleb M. Borisov

Hi! Very nice tool — using it everyday.

I’ve translated it into Russian several weeks ago and going to sent you a Russian strings-file.

Also I’m using another icon for status bar (magnet in Resources folder), do you think to use this icon by default?

Many-many thanks for ExpanDrive.
Jeff Mancuso

Gleb - Please send us the strings file, we’d love to have a Russian translation!

-Jeff
http://www.miaoyingbo.com Yingbo Miao

Hi,

Would you give me more details of creating a new localization? I tried copying ExampleLanguage.lproj to “Canadian English.lproj”, revising a few letters in the Localizable.strings, changing my International to Canadian English, logging out and logging in again. The expandrive, however, didn’t change at all. (I’m using “Canadian English” just as an example.)

Thanks, Yingbo Miao
http://www.miaoyingbo.com Yingbo Miao
I made a simplified Chinese localization, by copying the ExampleLanguage.lproj to zh_CN.lproj.
- Yingbo
http://elia.wordpress.com Elia Schito

I writing an Italian translation, once it’s done, I’ll send it to you…
http://blog.magnetk.com Jon Shea

Awesome, Thanks Elia.
http://onetruebrace.com Quang Anh Do

I sent you my Vietnamese translation last week, but haven’t yet received a reply. Have you had a look at it?