Hi,

We have an almost-complete translation of Squeak35 to Spanish.

Is anyone interested in this procedure to translate Squeak to French,
German, Italian or any language included in MacRoman characterset?

Cheers,

Diego

> Hi translators...
>
> The last days we (we=small-land) were working hard to translate Squeak
> to Spanish.
>
> As you know, Babel can translate Squeak to any language included in
> MacRoman character-set.
>
> We didn't finish a complete translation but a lot is already there
> (world menu and sub-menus, object catalog, flaps, file-list, properties
> dialogs, morphs names, etc).
>
> To try Babel with other language but Spanish follow these steps:
>
> - Get the small-land image from http://squeak.linex.org/W32/Squeak35-
> SmallLand-Imagen.zip
>
> - Change the language to English using World Menu >> help.. >> set
> language... >> English.  (The small-land image is in Spanish by
> default).
>
> - Update the image to include all the changes we made pressing the
> button [actualizar] (actualizar means update in Spanish) in the
> Small-Land flap.
>
> - Create a new subclass of Language (use Spanish as an example) and
> implement the method #name.  This name has to be the same symbol used
> in Vocabulary class>>initializeLanguageTable (#English #Deutsch
> #'Español' #Kiswahili #Nederlands #Norsk #Svenska)
>
> - Change the language to you own (World Menu >> help.. >> set
> language...
>>> YourOwnLanguage)
>
> - You can start to translate using the tool named "Language Editor"
> available from the Small-Land flap or from World Menu >> open... >>
> Language Editor
>
> - After translating the phrases used in flaps you can recreate them
> using the button in the Language-Editor.
>
> - Take in mind the option "debug" in the Language-Editor. This will
> show the translated phrases like "translated phrase (original phrase)".
>  It's useful to validate the translation work.
>
>
> Comments, ideas, etc are ever welcome!
>
> Enjoy it,
>
> Diego Gomez Deck
> http://www.small-land.org