Help translate Far to your language

[alabuzhev]

Some of our translations are outdated and contain English strings here and there.
If you would like to help us translate those missing bits, please see the summary table below:

Language\Component	Far	Align	Arclite	Autowrap	Brackets	Compare	DrawLine	EditCase	EMenu	FarCmds	FileCase	HlfViewer	LuaMacro	Network	ProcList	SameFolder	TmpPanel	NetBox
English	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Belarusian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Czech	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
German	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Hungarian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Italian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Lithuanian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Polish	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Russian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Slovak	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Spanish	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng
Ukrainian	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng hlf	lng

Notes:

• lng files contain the UI strings; hlf files contain the context help pages (F1).
• Some of these files contain huge chunks of English text, some are even missing.
• The easiest way to check what is not translated is to compare a file with its English counterpart in any visual diff tool.
• In case of Far all lng files are generated from a single file that contains all the languages together. Its format is quite obvious. Changing that template file is preferable, but Far???.lng files from the distribution package can be transalted as well if that's more convenient to you.
• Any questions are welcome.
• Adding new languages is, of course, welcome as well.

[vfekete]

Slovak.txt

some are missing because it was hard to translate it without context (several translations are possible based on context) or I didn't know what they mean

[MKadaner]

@vfekete, if you point to specific strings, I'll help you with the context.

[vfekete]

ok, thanks, so
where is this sorting? what does it sorts? (sorting of files based on name, size, ... does not contain words 'Collation', 'Ordinal', 'Invariant' nor 'Linguistic')
MConfigSortingCollation
MConfigSortingOrdinal
MConfigSortingInvariant
MConfigSortingLinguistic
MConfigSortingDigitsAsNumbers

What list this refers to?
MListPlaceholder

What kind of streams is this talking about?
MFindAlternateStreams

[alabuzhev]

@vfekete, thanks, merged. I've updated the list in the 1st message.

where is this sorting? what does it sorts?

It defines the behaviour of file sorting algorithm. Options - System settings.

MListPlaceholder

Placeholder files

MFindAlternateStreams

NTFS Alternate Streams

MConfigDoubleStripeSeparator "Dvojité oddeľovače hlavných stĺpcov"

Note: we've changed 'column' to 'stripe' here, so 'stĺpcov' is outdated.

MChangeSUBSTDisconnectDriveQuestion "Odpojiť SUBST-disk {0}?"
MSetConfirmRemoveSUBST "Odpojenie d&isku SUBST"

Note: we've changed 'disconnect' to 'remove' here, so 'Odpojiť' & 'Odpojenie' are outdated.

[MKadaner]

For MConfigSortingXxx this may help:

[vfekete]

ok, I changed everything remaining + updated fields you changed meanwhile, please have a look.

Slovak.txt

[alabuzhev]

Thanks, added.

[alabuzhev]

Now the only missing line in Slovak is
MQuickViewMFTOverhead "MFT overhead:"

[vfekete]

sorry, I must have missed that one, sending Slovak.txt with updated MFT line (I assume, MFT stands for NTFS Master File Table)
Slovak.txt

[michalzobec]

hello, I will try translation to this Sunday for Czech language.

[michalzobec]

hello, here is my translation of the Czech.txt file.

[alabuzhev]

@michalzobec - thank you, merged.

Note - the txt files in the first post were outdated, so there are still some untranslated entries.
I've re-uploaded them, please check the new Czech.txt

[michalzobec]

@alabuzhev hello, okay, I will look to new file to two weeks, actually I am busy.

[michalzobec]

@alabuzhev
Hello Alex,

here si second file with czech translation:
Czech1910.txt

in future, you can contact me for Czech translation :)

[michalzobec]

@alabuzhev it was okay?

[alabuzhev]

@michalzobec sorry, couldn't do it earlier. Merged in 5640a3f.

[alabuzhev]

Guys, any native Czech speakers here?
I've found a couple of very old Czech translation packages which can be used to extend the current localisation.
The thing is that they're slightly different and I'm not familiar enough with the language to tell which one is:

• better per se
• better match to the current translation (see FarCze.lng in the same directory with far.exe)

cz_170b4_by_Michal_Breškovec.zip (I plan to use this one since it's more complete)
cz_170b5_Miroslav_Pták.zip

Any suggestions?

[tiagofilipesilva]

Hi @alabuzhev,
I would like to assist your project with Portuguese (PT) and Mirandese when I have some spare time.
Is there a translations-related guide or how-to?
Thank in advance!

[johnd0e]

Is there a translations-related guide or how-to?

https://github.com/FarGroup/FarManager/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-new-lines-to-language-files

[alabuzhev]

@tiagofilipesilva the process is rather simple:

• there are *.lng files, which contain the strings displayed in the UI.
• there are *.hlf files, which contain the context help pages.

Both are plain text, so you could just copy FarEng.hlf and FarEng.lng to FarPor.* / FarMir.* and start gradually translating them as is. Once the files are ready you can send them to us and we will do the rest.

Note: there's no need to translate 100% of the text at once. You could start with baby steps: copy files, update their headers & names, translate a few strings, make sure that everything works as expected and share what you already have. Then we can integrate these new files properly and you can make further changes as regular pull requests (see #117, #119 and other translation-related PRs for example).

Also, there are a couple of existing translations:
Portugues (ISO-8859-1): https://plugring.farmanager.com/plugin.php?pid=276&l=en
Brazilian Portugues: https://plugring.farmanager.com/plugin.php?pid=739&l=en

They are extremely outdated (for Far v1.64 and 1.70 correspondingly), but probably about 60-70% of strings can be reused, which is better than doing everything from scratch. Please have a look, if "Portugues (ISO-8859-1)" is reusable I can help with the initial setup.

[vfekete]

Well, I'm not native Czech speaker and as far as I remember I was not adding any lines to any part of the source code (either real code or some other data). I just took existing "task" from the web and translated missing sections mentioned there in simple text file with lines 'original_text translated_text'. I didn't even comited anything, just sent an email with attachment. V. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

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[alabuzhev]

Updated the first post.

[michalzobec]

@alabuzhev

Guys, any native Czech speakers here?
I've found a couple of very old Czech translation packages which can be used to extend the current localisation.
The thing is that they're slightly different and I'm not familiar enough with the language to tell which one is:

• better per se
• better match to the current translation (see FarCze.lng in the same directory with far.exe)

cz_170b4_by_Michal_Breškovec.zip (I plan to use this one since it's more complete)
cz_170b5_Miroslav_Pták.zip

Any suggestions?

hello, I am Czech native speaker. I know personally Miroslav Pták, I am author of old translation of Far Help, for versions 1.7-2.0.

Not make sense use this old translation, I think. More easy will be update existing. I will check again in few weeks.

If you will need any update for Czech translation, please contact me directly. :)

Michal

[alabuzhev]

@michalzobec, thank you. The Czech localisation has been extended a little already, using both of those, but quite a few bits are still missing, especially in the main help file (about 30% translated I think).
Please see the first post of this thread for details and the corresponding row in the table there for file URLs.