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Hi,


Recently I bought vB5 to upgrade my vB3.8 forum. Went through this English only topic.. and I need a solution for my French users :)

What I m goingto explain mayd help several Forum Owners that are going to install/upgrade to VB5 and need a different language..
In my case, I needed a French Translation and either if this is 80% accurate due to Google Translation, I think this could be a good idea for any Forum Owner that doesn't want it to run it in English.


To help you, and also automate my implementation (following the next vB5 Beta releases) I made this tool, that works for me.. and would be glad to update it if it fails for you.
1212-pika-vbeasytranslator.png
Link to the .EXE file (created with .Net C#)


All you have to do is insert the path of your vB XML language file, and it will sort it out.
- The (1) will extract the English texts from the XML dump to a .lang.EN.txt
- (2) is not automated yet, needs you to translate the file (use Google Online Translator Toolkit to translate the full extracted file) in the same format
- Run the (3) Merge action to concatenate the translated text in the XML New Language file.


Finally, (at least for France), the XML will look good. So far, I didn't imported mine on my test vB5 forum as I miss time but the structure should be perfect although if sometexts need to be reviewed :)


The only thing (that is on my todolist) is that the XML headers may need to be adjusted to your language which is not that much a pain, and though you may have to review Google Translations :)


Please, let me know how that helps, and should you see an improvement, let me know !

In addition, shoudl this violate any rule on the forum, please feel free to delete my thread, or move it anywhere else.


Regards
Pierrick

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Tip 1: click on the program name (close to the dev name) to send me an email !
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