[For Translator] How to Translate Language File of 3uTools?

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[For Translator] How to Translate Language File of 3uTools?

Postby Grace Liu » 02 Aug 2017 17:36

As we all know, since V2.13, 3uTools has supported switching languages. Currently, there are 8 languages for your choice.

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As a result of the improvement of 3uTools, more and more users are willing to offer help to translate 3uTools into another language. 3uTools Support Team thanks for all kind users.

In order to make the translation more intuitive, here is the brief introduction of the translation process.

First of all, you need to download the translation tool and the original language file.

Tool:
Linguist.zip
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Language file of 3uTools V2.39(Update: May. 9th, 2020), We will update the language file as the update of 3uTools.
tools.en

Important Note: The latest language file has more than 4000 lines.

1. Extract the file and then open linguist, drag the language file into linguist.

2. You can adjust the size of the translation font by press “Ctrl” and “+”.

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After you finish the sentence, you can just click "?" mark in front of every sentence, then the mark will turn into "√".

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3. You can start to translate now. Take “Convert Video” for example. (English to Vietnamese)
You can delete “Convert Video” in the line "English Translation", and then translate according to the English source text from the Line "English Translator Comments"(No need to add translate on this line).

As the following picture;

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Note:
(1)Remember to click the "?" mark to save as “√”. And then you can click the next line to translate.

(2)In order to display the translated sentences completely, please try to make the translation short or make it as long as the sentences in Source text.

(3)During the translation, you may meet some symbol. Please don't modify them.
For example;
a. Like %1, %2, they are placeholders, which have an exact value when the program is running. Please don't modify them.

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b. And some HTML codes, please don't modify them.

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HexagonTeam
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Re: [For Translator] How to Translate Language File of 3uTools?

Postby HexagonTeam » 20 Jul 2018 20:20

How do we test the translation file ?

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Re: [For Translator] How to Translate Language File of 3uTools?

Postby Grace Liu » 23 Jul 2018 09:05

HexagonTeam wrote:How do we test the translation file ?

:D Hello, before you start to translate the new language version of 3uTools, you should contact with us(3utools@gmail.com). And we will show you how to test the translation file.
And what language version you want to translate?


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