How to make a translation

How to make a translation

Already translated languages

• English (Fully translated)
• German (Fully translated)
• Italian (Some translation is missing)
• Dutch (Some translation is missing)
• Spanish (Some translation is missing)
• Danish (Some translation is missing)
• French (Some translation is missing)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (Some translation is missing)
• Polish
• Greek
• Norwegian
• Czech

Translation the old way

If you use this method, please take care of the file encodings! The method with MPLanguageTool (second method) will take care automatically about that.

1. Open folder: Vista/7: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\language\InfoService or 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\language\InfoService
2. Create a new file called strings_XX.xml where XX is your short country name.
3. Open that file with a text editor.
4. Copy and paste the template below into that file.
5. Locate the line and change XX to your language. For example: English, German.
6. Now you can translate all the strings.
7. At last you can send me the file and i will add the language into the next release.
8. Contact me via e-mail: edgi@arcor.de
9. Or via forum thread/private message: MediaPortal - InforService Forum

Translation the new and better way (recommended)

1. Download the MPLanguageTool here: MPLanguageTool
2. Start MPLanguageTool.exe
3. Press "Load language file" and choose "MediaPortal 1". A browser folder dialog will open.
4. Choose the folder: Vista/7: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\language\InfoService or 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\language\InfoService
5. Choose the language you want to create
6. Now you can start creating a language file for InfoService!

Template

Template updated: 29.12.2015

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Language name="English" characters="255">
  <Section name="unmapped">
    <String id="0">Refresh</String>
    <String id="1">Select feed</String>
    <String id="2">Show all feeds</String>
    <String id="3">Select timeline</String>
    <String id="4">Update status</String>
    <String id="5">Download of timeline has failed. However, the last successfully downloaded timeline will be displayed.</String>
    <String id="6">Download of timeline has failed. See log for full details!</String>
    <String id="7">Twitter is refreshing. Please wait until download has finished.</String>
    <String id="8">Update in progress</String>
    <String id="9">Status update successful. Please refresh Twitter to see the updated timeline!</String>
    <String id="10">Update successful</String>
    <String id="11">Update unsuccessful</String>
    <String id="12">Update of status failed. See log for full details!</String>
    <String id="13">Downloading feeds and images...</String>
    <String id="14">Update of Feed unsuccessful. See log for full details!</String>
    <String id="15">Downloading Twitter timelines...</String>
    <String id="16">Update of Twitter unsuccessful. See log for full details!</String>
    <String id="17">Feeds are refreshing. Please wait until the download has finished.</String>
    <String id="18">Download of feed has failed. However, the last successfully downloaded feed items will be displayed.</String>
    <String id="19">Download of feed has failed. See log for full details!</String>
    <String id="20">{0} Seconds ago</String>
    <String id="21">{0} Minutes ago</String>
    <String id="22">{0}h and {1} Minutes ago</String>
    <String id="23">{0}d {1}h and {2} Minutes ago</String>
    <String id="24">Waiting until the other services are finished...</String>
    <String id="25">All feeds</String>
    <String id="26">A feed that combines all feed items</String>
    <String id="27">Goto website</String>
    <String id="28">Goto...</String>
    <String id="29">Last update of feeds on {0}</String>
    <String id="30">Last update of Twitter on {0}</String>
    <String id="31">Last update of weather on {0}</String>
    <String id="32">FeedService is disabled...</String>
    <String id="33">TwitterService is disabled...</String>
    <String id="34">Feed items</String>
    <String id="35">Twitter items</String>
    <String id="36">Waiting for FeedService update...</String>
    <String id="37">Waiting for TwitterService update...</String>
    <String id="38">{0} new Item(s) - {1}</String>
    <String id="39">New messages on {0}!</String>
    <String id="40">{0} new Tweet(s) - {1}</String>
    <String id="41">New Tweets on {0}</String>
  </Section>
</Language>