1 ADDING LANGUAGES TO WINE
3 This file documents the necessary procedure for adding a new language
4 to the list of languages that Wine can display system menus and forms
5 in. Currently at least the following languages are still missing:
6 Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese, Romanian,
7 Croatian, Slovak, Turkish, and Slovanian.
9 To add a new language you need to be able to translate the relatively
10 few texts, of course. You will need very little knowledge of
11 programming, so you have almost no excuses for not adding your language,
12 right? We should easily be able to support 20 languages within a few
13 months, get going! Apart from re-compilation it'll take you about an
16 To add a new language to the list of languages that Wine can handle
19 0. Find the language ID in /include/winnls.h .
21 1. Look in ole/ole2nls.c if your language is already incorporated in
22 the "static const struct NLS_langlocale". If not: find the
23 appropriate entries in /include/winnls.h and add them to the list.
25 2. Edit the parameters defined in /ole/nls/*.nls to fit your local
28 3. Edit documentation/wine.man (search for -language) to show the new
29 language abbreviation.
31 4. Edit misc/main.c variable "Languages" to contain the new language
32 abbreviation and language ID. Also edit macro "USAGE" to show the
35 5. Edit include/options.h enum "WINE_LANGUAGE" to have a member called
36 LANG_XX where XX is the new abbreviation.
38 6. Create a new file dlls/commdlg/cdlg_XX.rc (where XX is your language
39 abbreviation) containing all menus.
40 Your best bet is to copy cdlg_En.rc and start translating.
41 There is no real need to know how the internal structure of the file,
42 as you only need to translate the text within quotes.
44 In menus, the character "&" means that the next character will
45 be highlighted and that pressing that letter will select the item.
46 You should place these "&"s suitably for your language, not just
47 copy the positions from (say) English. In particular, items within
48 one menu should have different highlighted letters.
50 7. Edit dlls/commdlg/rsrc.rc to contain an include statement for your
53 8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 again for:
54 - dlls/shell32/shell32_XX.rc and shres.rc
55 - resources/sysres_XX.rc and user32.rc
57 9. Re-configure, re-make dependencies, and re-make Wine.
59 10. Check your new menus and forms; when they're not ok,
60 go back to 6) and adapt the sizes, etc.
62 11. Several of the winelib based programs in the subdirectory programs
63 also have internationalisation support. See the appropriate files
66 12. Edit /documentation/internationalisation to show the new status.
68 13. Submit patches for inclusion in the next Wine release,
69 see file ./ANNOUNCE for details about where to submit.
75 [I hope I got all the places where changes are needed. If you see any
76 place missing from the above list, submit a patch to this file please.
77 Also note that re-organization of the source code might change the list
80 Therefore revised Februari 1999 by Klaas van Gend
81 Revised again May 23, 1999, Klaas van Gend