Localization of the MediaPortal installer and user interface (7 Viewers)

[infinite.loop]

The correct way is to provide a strings_xx.xml specific to the plugin ( like language\movingpictures\strings_it.xml ) and put all the translations there, plugin name as well.
Or provide a field in the configuration pane of the plugin itself to "rename" it.

Our official language files will _not_ incorporate those.

Simone

I have added that to the first post.

 

[offbyone]

Are these plugin specific language files in the subfolders loaded automatically by MediaPortal, or does the plugin delevoper take care of those?

 

[chemelli]

AFAIK, plugin dev needs to take care

Simone

 

[offbyone]

Recently used the tool for OnlineVideos and couldn't get it to do my russian translation, because it doesn't save in utf-8 encoding! Can someone modify the tool to save utf-8 instead of the current iso-8859-1?

 

[chemelli]

will check what I can do...

Simone

 

[chemelli]

Just checked the code:

case frmMain.StringsType.MediaPortal_1:
          writer = new StreamWriter(xml, false, Encoding.UTF8);
          writer.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n");

So I don't see where it fails.

Can you tell me the steps you use to get the translation done please ?

Simone

 

[offbyone]

Well since the xml's first line is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

I would say that code is not executed in my case.


I used the MovingPictures Menu Entry and then chose the dir where the en-US.xml file is and entered some cyrillic letters and did save. The resulting file is not uft-8. (It always saves in non utf-8 not matter what letters are entered).

I used the executable attached to the first post.

 

[chemelli]

I used the MovingPictures Menu Entry

Please try "MediaPortal 1" menu entry.

Simone

 

[offbyone]

I can't use that one as the format of the xml differs.

 

[chemelli]

I can't use that one as the format of the xml differs.

ok, then I'll ask MovPic and TVSeries plugin devs if I can switch to UTF8 for them so I'll have only 1 entry for "plugins".



Simone