[Help needed] Call for translations

[diegoberaldin]

Linguists and translators out there, I need your help! This application is primarily targeted at you, as I really appreciate your work and feel you can make the difference in our lives, making the way we interact with technology and software feel "more natural". We all know how a bad translation can deteriorate the user experience of any application or website, to the point of making it barely, if not completely, unusable.

I need new localizations for this app and I need more tests made by "real" users, and I realized the two things can go hand in hand if we translate the UI of MetaPhrase using MetaPhrase itself (as I did myself).

In order to contribute a new language, you need to:

1. download a release of MetaPhrase / build it from source yourself (using Gradle)
2. grab the project translations from this translation memory and save to your documents or working directory
3. open MetaPhrase, create open the project ("Project"> "Open") and select the TMX file you downloaded from the previous step
4. Add your language in the dialog you get by selecting the "Project" > "Edit" menu
   ℹ︎ [this step is needed only if you want to add a new language, skip it if you just want to proofread an existing one]
5. change the language in the translate toolbar and select the language you want to edit
6. translate or review all the UI messages
7. make sure there are no placeholder errors and possibly correct them ("Project" > "Validate placeholders")
8. save the project ("Project" > "Save"). At this point the TMX will contain all the messages you added.

You can attach your translations here in a message and I'll add the possibility to change the language from the settings dialog (adding your target language) shortly after.

Thank you to all those who will contribute and report bugs, I think we can really make the difference if we work together.