I would like to thanks Tony for his kind guidance in Language Packs.

I am commencing the project in creating Traditional and SImplified Chinese Packs for eBlah and hope it will be sucessful. (Wish me luck!)

I have a couple of questions and doubts to clear before I start:

1. Forum Icons description can be re-create in chinese characters. How is this being used when one select their desired language from their profile page?

2. What file should be translated other than the language file?

3. Is it possible to activate Altavista's Babelfish or Systrans so that existing english discussion can be translated as well?

Thanks and I appreciate all the help! :)

1) Not that I know of. You would need to do a bit of editing on the menu (Routines.pl), which should be a peice of cake.
2) If you haven't done so, copy the /English folder and rename it to /Chinese (or your prefered name). All the files in the /Chinese directory need to be edited.

1) Edit English.lng ... it's at the very bottom.  ;)

3) huh?

3)http://world.altavista.com/- Bablefish is a translater...

Are you saying you want to translate your existing posts to chinese???

Quoted from tsopranolcn, posted May 27, 2003, 7:21pm at here

3)http://world.altavista.com/- Bablefish is a translater...

Are you saying you want to translate your existing posts to chinese???

Yes, to translate existing English postings into chinese. My apologies Justin, for the vagueness of my postings.

I noticed that the language pack only translate the standard forum description into other language. I think it will be good to also translate the existing messages into chinese as well as I am trying to get chinese visitors to my websites. I want my chinese visitors can get to know what has been discussed in my forum hence I need to find a way to translate existing English postings to chinese.

I think this feature will also be useful to other language packs as well. :)

Highlight the post, copy it (right click), then paste it into a translater, then use modify to either add it to the "English" post or replace the "English" post with the Chinese translation... That's the only easiest way I can think of... You may need to edit out any bcode before you translate it though...

Note: Downloading the /Message directory and editing each .txt file would probably be triple the work...

There is another member looking for a Chinese language pack... You guys may be able to work together on it... maybe cut the editing in half...maybe..:)

Hi there,

Any luck in getting the board converted to Traditional CHinese?
I am trying to do the conversion.....how much have you done?

Slime??)

Hi Slime,

I am almost done with the translation of the english.lng file into traditional chinese.

I have yet to touch the files in the language folder.

How about you? How much have you done? If you are doing the Traditional chinese, then perhaps I can do the simplified chinese version.

How about that? :)

I have not really started the translation yet.
The translation of the language files should not be too difficult.  I have a program that can translate traditional chinese text files to simplified chinese.

But I found that mere translation is not enough.  I tried adding the line "...charset=big5..." to the template to make it show chinese characters... However, some of the characters were not converted properly and resulted in some of the html appeared on the screen.  Have u solve that problem yet?

Are you using chinese star to translate tradiitonal chinese to simplified chinese? :)

Would you like to share the work in translating the language files? One of us could take either traditional or simplifed chinese? What do you think of this proposal?

YaBB forum's template uses this method for translating:

Quoted Text

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; <yabb charset>">

Perhaps Justin can incorperate this into the source code of the next version of eBlah?

Justin, care to commend?

That's an alright idea, I may add that.  :)



- Justin

Added.

added?

How do I use your added stufff?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<blah v="$char">">

To use it, add that to Template.html in the <head>


Then add $char = "MyCharSet";


Into English.lng (or whatever language you are using.

Quoted from admin, posted June 1, 2003, 1:44pm at here

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<blah v="$char">">

To use it, add that to Template.html in the <head>


Then add $char = "MyCharSet";


Into English.lng (or whatever language you are using.

Justin, do we need to download update our forum source code again before applying the meta tag into our template?

No, you do not.

So I just add

$char = "MyCharSet";

after the comments in the language file.

Am I right?

Yep.  :)  Change MyCharSet to whatever charset you use.  ;)



- Justin

Ok thanks! I begin to understand how Perl works! :)

I have finished translating the first file (English.lng) to Traditional Chinese. Will be working on the translation of other files this month.

Once this is done, I will convert them to Simplified Chinese.

Can anyone help creating the chinese buttons for the language pack?

Justin, do you have the blank eblah buttons including the icons in native PSP or PSD format?

Download the Image Pack.

All language pack writers, take note:

Take note that the right meta tag code is as follows. eBlah do not display the blah code when the info is encased in quote bcode on Justin's previous posting :)

Code <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<blah v="$char">">

Are you saying you want to translate your existing posts to chinese???[/quote]

yes