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It only took a couple of days in my spare time to use Google to translate all of the English texts in the GUI to Russian but I have no idea if it's good or bad, I can only guess at language semantics and syntax

If you would like other languages for the GUI or have time to help out please post me a note indicating how you might be of assistance, proof reading, doing the translating, beta testing, etc...

I would like to do the help files as well but am unfamiliar with this "Internationalization" process and the functionality from a programming standpoint, I still have a few things to learn ;)

nice one i'm sure it will be appreciated and useful, sadly i'm almost as bad at languages as I am at maths!

I'm russian, can help, but don't think that translating will change something  :-\

I am not a fragmentarium user so I am not familiar with the text used in the program. Neither am I a programmer. But I would like to help with translating. I can translate the program gui to Dutch, if I know how to do that. :)

I think all programmers knows Enhlish, strange if not. And Frag has intuitive interface.
So translated manual for beginners - it will be more actual. Need really basic things. Fragmentarium works even on IvyBridge GPU and theoretically, the number of users is increasing.

:thanks2: as soon as I have a win exe I'll pm you a link, the zip will have the raw translation text file too

The idea is that there would probably be fewer questions if help files and things are in a familiar language,
easier to understand what a button or menu item does.

I agree that most programmers probably understand English out of necessity just because of the code, compilers and documentation they have to work with.
Qt provides a facility for locale aware GUIs and all of the tools to make them so for me this is a fun way to learn more about programming :D and maybe encourage others to explore math and fractals.

EDIT: we'll see how the poll goes ;)

Ok, the poll is done, thank you all for the input and generous offers of your precious time  :beer:
yeah, machine translation is laughable
@Christ-JRoger you're right it seems not to make a big difference in using the program itself, maybe just documentation needs some attention ;)

I see you already got a volunteer for the dutch version :) If you cannot find a native speaker for german, I'm in (am sort of an ex-native speaker and can tame google translate-garble well enough to produce something making sense, I hope ;) ). But if you find a real native speaker, by all means!

Here is the raw xml as a txt file (http://www.digilanti.org/fragmentarium/Fragmentarium.txt) for anyone that would like to translate, it is English to (machine)Russian, the format is simple, just replace the relevant parts with your native language and pm me a link to your text file, I will include as time permits and add a credit to the About section.
Thanks (in advance) for the input  :beer:

3dickulus, я скачал файл, попробую перевести с машинного русского на человеческий русский.  :D
Попробую быстро, но при наличии времени.

Ну вот, готово!

Nice! I will be looking at it this evening  O0

@SCORPION whatever that file you posted is,  Fragmentarium ru.rar, it is useless to me, not useable, it extracts to a xml file that is 930K, the original with both English and Russian (machine) is only 116K, your file has lines longer than 4096 characters.

For translations I can only accept a text file in the same format as the one I posted earlier, no .xml, no .doc, only .txt

can you post the text only file?

And I opened your file in Notepad, but there are still hitched in one pile.
Then I was given a boost in Microsoft Office Word file and edited there.
well, I reopened the file in a Microsoft Office Word and save as .txt
Strangely, the file will be smaller than the original.

Word saves a lot of extra stuff like editing history, colors, font, page formatting etc.
Your .txt file looks perfect :D

Ok the first translations are in v1.0.29 and available using the update option of the MaintenanceTool, they will be installed automatically when using the installer.

Russian by SCORPION and Crist-JRoger
German by Sabine62

coming soon...

Dutch and Spanish


I'm sure it will need some testing and maybe some adjusting, you can revert back to English by removing or renaming the Fragmentarium_*.qm files.

Thanks go to SCORPION Crist-JRoger Sabine62 TheRedshiftRider and Kali  :beer: :beer: :beer: