1 Status of Internationalisation and Language Support in WINE
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3 May 29, 1999, Klaas van Gend
5 Just like Windows, Wine must support several languages and
6 localised settings for countries other than the US.
7 Since the last module-loader re-organisation by Bertho,
8 this involves several files which need to be adapted to
9 support a certain language/region.
14 Currently, the following keyboard layouts are available:
15 US, UK, FR, Icelandic, DE, Swiss German, Swiss French, NO, DA, Swedish,
16 Canadian French, PT, IT, FI, RU, ES, Belgian.
17 Please refer to the Wine User Guide, chapter "Keyboard" on how to add
18 more keyboard layouts.
23 You can find the locale settings in ole/nls/ .
24 Most languages have several locale settings for the various
25 countries. See the ole/nls/README, documentation/languages and
26 MSDN's localeconv.htm for documentation on the structure
30 SysRes = System Resources :
31 ---------------------------
32 (System Menu, Edit Menu, MessageBox)
33 10 denotes that all resources are localised
34 e denotes that the EditMenu is still in English
35 d denotes that the SYSMENU is lacking the 61762 debug entry in
36 either English or Regional language
37 You can find these settings in resources/sysres_*.rc
38 where * stands for your language code.
39 Please use the English version (sysres_En.rc) as example.
40 See documentation/languages by Morten Wilinder and Klaas van Gend
41 on how to add another language.
46 1 SHELL_ABOUT_MSGBOX is in English, MENU_001, MENU_002 and
47 SHBRSFORFOLDER_MSGBOX are not present.
48 2 SHELL_ABOUT_MSGBOX is translated, MENU_001, MENU_002 and
49 SHBRSFORFOLDER_MSGBOX are not present.
50 10 all present and translated...
51 According to Juergen Schmiedt, MENU_001 and MENU_002 are not
52 yet complete and shouldn't be translated yet.
57 OFN = CommonDialogs' 16 bit File Dialog
58 FR = CommonDialogs' Find & Replace Dialogs
59 CC = CommonDialogs' Choose Colour Dialog
60 CF = CommonDialogs' Choose Font Dialog
61 PD16 = CommonDialogs' 16 bit Print Dialog
62 PSD = CommonDialogs' Page Setup Dialog
63 PD32 = CommonDialogs' 32 bit Print Dialog + stringtable
64 F32 = CommonDialogs' 32 bit File Dialogs + stringtables
67 5 denotes: available, but not in current layout
68 -- denotes: not available.
70 See documentation/languages on how to add another language.
75 There are several menus present in dlls/comctl32/rsrc.rc.
76 Thuy Nguyen is still modifying the property dialog sheet templates,
77 so don't start translating them yet. Also, there is no structure for
78 comctrl32 internationalisation.
79 The resources for the other controls are stable.
84 In the multimedia subdirectory, a large stringtable with all
85 multimedia errors and messages is waiting for translation.
86 Be careful, this is a large piece of text!
91 Several of the Winelib-based programs in programs/* contain their own
92 resources, which can be internationalised.
93 Check the appropriate files and subdirectories for instructions on
94 how to add additional languages.
95 Note that currently the Swedish files are named "Sw.rc" where they
96 should be called "Sv.rc".
97 The WCMD program notes that internationalisation is lacking, but doesn't
101 At this moment (Oct 2, 1999), the following is supported:
103 (10 = max support, 0 = very bad/broken support, empty = no support,
105 (note that I only looked into the source, I did not try to run the various languages)
107 Sys| Commdlg | Win | Shell| Programs
108 Res| OFN PD16 PSD CF CC FR PD32 F32 | MM | 32 | Clock Notepad Progman WinHelp
109 ----+--------------------------------+-----+------+------------------------------
110 Ca Catalan 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2 -- -- -- --
111 Cs Czech de 10 10 10 5 5 10 -- -- -- 1 -- -- -- --
112 Da Danish 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2
113 De German 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 1
114 En English 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 2
116 Eo Esperanto de 10 10 10 5 5 10 -- -- -- 1 -- -- -- --
117 Es Spanish 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2
118 Fi Finnish 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 1
119 Fr French 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- 10 2
120 Hu Hungarian d 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 1 -- --
122 It Italian d 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 1 -- --
123 Ko Korean d 10 10 10 5 10 10 -- -- -- 1 -- --
124 Nl Dutch 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- ** 2 -- -- -- --
125 No Norwegian de 10 10 10 5 5 10 -- -- -- 1 -- -- -- --
126 Pl Polish d ---code is undecipherable--- -- 1 -- -- -- --
128 Pt Portugese d 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2 -- -- -- --
129 Ru Russian 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2 -- -- -- --
130 Sv Swedish d 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2 "Sw" "Sw" "Sw" "Sw"
131 Wa Walon 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 -- -- -- 2 -- -- -- --
132 Va Rumantsch Ladin (Vallader) -- "Va" "Va" "Va" "Va"