Language-Pack for Celestia?

[Jost]

Hi!

I'm from Germany. Celestia is a great space-simulator and I would ask you, if there is a Language-Pack for Celestia, e.g. German.

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[Astrobot]

Yes, Celestia should include language pack, because a lot of people uses it around many countries.

But it is a little dificult. I tried to traduct Celestia into Spanish but I've only made the menu bar...

[chris]

Yes, Celestia should include language pack, because a lot of people uses it around many countries.

But it is a little dificult. I tried to traduct Celestia into Spanish but I've only made the menu bar...

The big problem is that there are several different front ends for Celestia--Windows, Gnome, KDE, MacOS, and GLUT. And they all use different schemes for multilanguage support. If Celestia used a cross-platform UI toolkit, the language problem would be easier to solve . . . But, I haven't found a UI kit that's satisfactory.

--Chris

[The Clickman]

why not making a ".scl" file containing resources for translation ?
something like

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celestia_menu_bar {
  FILE = "Fichier"
  FILE_OPENSCRIPT = "Ouvrir Script..."
  ...
}

celestia_interface {
  SPEED = "Vitesse"
  ...
}


or XML like translation like Winamp 3...
and use strings from this file instead of normal string...
reading this file can be done in all platforms I think...