Swedish translation?

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Sweden is a rather large Open Source country, even my old grandmother know´s what Linux is! :slight_smile: Linux, UNIX and BSD i quite common and is used by lots of people. And thats where my suggestion comes in. Why not translate the entire Haiku project into Swedish? It would really help it to gain. I know lots of people who hates Windows more than the plague but dosnt want to try Linux beacurse they think it is to hard. BeOS isn´t hard, BeOS dosn´t get infected by viruses and Haiku is free. So if it where translated into Swedish I am shure lots of people would use it :slight_smile:
If you guys think its a good idea i would be honoured to help you out and translate it.
Simon Johansson

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CUBErt wrote:
If you guys think its a good idea i would be honoured to help you out and translate it. Simon Johansson

I think translation into any language is a great idea! Why not open the project up to a whole new subset of people? It can only help spread awareness, increase bug reports, and attract developers.

I’m guessing you’re help will be welcomed. Thanks!

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CUBErt wrote:
If you guys think its a good idea i would be honoured to help you out and translate it. Simon Johansson

How do you mean? the OS or things around the os?
I think that Haiku must have a translation like Zeta does.
but thats more like R2.

<swedish>men vi är många som följer Haiku :)</swedish>

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The OS, Apps that comes with it and so on.

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ModeenF wrote:
CUBErt wrote:
I think that Haiku must have a translation like Zeta does. but thats more like R2.

Axel started a localization/internationalization API in the OpenTracker CVS at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/opentracker/locale/
I don’t know its exact state, though, and if it will be integrated into R1. Should ask him…

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We absolutely should, and I have no doubt that we will, translate Haiku into as many languages as we possibly can. The only question is that of when it’s appropriate to start translating things. I think we should at least get some form of localization API into place first. A simple way to add language support to programs (possibly without having to recompile binaries?) and manage the use of languages from OS preferences (as opposed to manually choosing a language out of a list in each individual app or something).