Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New Languages

Hi Dale,

On 9/4/11 10:59 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:
> I am new to this list and am not a coder.  I am a retired mainframe 
> programmer and have been a user of Open Office since its introduction. 
> In fact, I even used Star Office before that.  I have just recently 
> downloaded Libre Office because of the uncertainty I perceive about 
> Open Office.
>
> I would like to know what is necessary to add a new language to Libre 
> Office.  I would imagine that coding is not necessary but only 
> translations need to be done, but where does one start?
The code needs to be touched in a few places for languages that were not 
previously known to LibreOffice, as well as for new scripts if any, but 
it is not overly complex.

To see the work that needs to be done, you can take as an example the 
patch that Andras just did to add Aragonese.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3f4932e2b868ce181886d0c8a1d19e63fa11c2c3

The following was how it was done a few years back... and the 
information is now too old (different product, different files, 
different localization techniques), but the ideas are the same:

http://www.khmeros.info/tools

To create a locale, you can look into:

http://www.it46.se/localegen/

Cheers,

Javier





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