A tool is provided called TranslateViaGoogle.py which screen scrapes the output from Google Translations in order to automate the translations for you into all supported languages. Simply call with the output and input files and much of the work will be done for you - though you WILL need to manually refine the output afterwards. Google Translate will only do so many translations for you before it realises that it is an automated script and will refuse to provide any more - thus the tool can restart a partially completed automatic translation, or indeed it can fill in the blanks of a manually translated file. You need the BeautifulSoup Python package as a prerequisite for operation.
Much of that power derives from the intuitive and powerful method of specifying translations. The file format is basically as follows:
"<program original text literal>": <langid>: "<generic translation for this language>" <langid>_<regionid>: "<localised translation for this language>" ... class="<class name>": <langid>: up|"<specific translation for this class in this language>" ... srcfile="<source file name>": ... hint="<hint>": ... "<next literal>": ...
More powerful operators are the 1, 2, 3 ... which let you specialise a translation based on parameter insert value eg;
"%1 pretty round teapots": ES: "%1 teteras redondas bonitas" %1=1: EN: "%1 pretty round teapot" ES: "%1 tetera redonda bonita"
srcfile="<source file name>":class="<class name>":hint="<hint>" <langid>: "<translation>"
"Device reopen has different mode": ES: "El modo de operacion no es iqual que antes" srcfile="QBuffer.cxx":class="QBuffer": ES: up srcfile="QFile.cxx":class="QFile": ES: up srcfile="QGZipDevice.cxx":class="QGZipDevice": ES: up
Using this format, you have amazing flexibility with specifying special translation situations for some languages and not for others, in a very large variety of circumstances. It is for this reason that I believe TnFOX has the most superior translation facilities available today!
Ideally, a language code is of the form language[_territory][], where language is a two-letter ISO 639 language code and territory is a two-letter ISO 3166 country code. However, due to incompatibilities in the implementation of the standard C library's setlocale() function, it isn't as easy as that.
Generally speaking you will not specialise past language and at most territory (currency differences eg; between pre and post-euro Europe tend to be held in the modifier. If you are on a POSIX system, run "locale -a" off a command line). Theoretically, Microsoft Windows reports the same ids as GNU/Linux correctly but I have found during testing that your milage may vary. If any really annoying incompatibilities arise, let me know and I'll implement id mapping to make them portable.
Below is a list of common language ids bewtween Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux:
cs (Czech), da (Danish), nl (Dutch), en (English), fi (Finnish), fr (French), de (German), el (Greek), hu (Hungarian), is (Icelandic), it (Italian), ja (Japanese), ko (Korean), no (Norwegian), pl (Polish), pt (Portugese), ru (Russian), sk (Slovak), es (Spanish), sv (Swedish), tr (Turkish).
This is a pitiful subset, missing out important ones such as Arabic, Chinese and Indian languages. I also find it depressing that the above nations are more or less the major geopolitical players around the time of the first world war!
GNU/Linux also supports: ar (Arabic)
| AFGHANISTAN | AF | LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA | LY | |
| ALBANIA | AL | LIECHTENSTEIN | LI | |
| ALGERIA | DZ | LITHUANIA | LT | |
| AMERICAN SAMOA | AS | LUXEMBOURG | LU | |
| ANDORRA | AD | MACAO | MO | |
| ANGOLA | AO | MACEDONIA | MK | |
| ANGUILLA | AI | MADAGASCAR | MG | |
| ANTARCTICA | AQ | MALAWI | MW | |
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | AG | MALAYSIA | MY | |
| ARGENTINA | AR | MALDIVES | MV | |
| ARMENIA | AM | MALI | ML | |
| ARUBA | AW | MALTA | MT | |
| AUSTRALIA | AU | MARSHALL ISLANDS | MH | |
| AUSTRIA | AT | MARTINIQUE | MQ | |
| AZERBAIJAN | AZ | MAURITANIA | MR | |
| BAHAMAS | BS | MAURITIUS | MU | |
| BAHRAIN | BH | MAYOTTE | YT | |
| BANGLADESH | BD | MEXICO | MX | |
| BARBADOS | BB | MICRONESIA | FM | |
| BELARUS | BY | MOLDOVA | MD | |
| BELGIUM | BE | MONACO | MC | |
| BELIZE | BZ | MONGOLIA | MN | |
| BENIN | BJ | MONTSERRAT | MS | |
| BERMUDA | BM | MOROCCO | MA | |
| BHUTAN | BT | MOZAMBIQUE | MZ | |
| BOLIVIA | BO | MYANMAR | MM | |
| BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | BA | NAMIBIA | NA | |
| BOTSWANA | BW | NAURU | NR | |
| BOUVET ISLAND | BV | NEPAL | NP | |
| BRAZIL | BR | NETHERLANDS | NL | |
| BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY | IO | NETHERLANDS ANTILLES | AN | |
| BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | BN | NEW CALEDONIA | NC | |
| BULGARIA | BG | NEW ZEALAND | NZ | |
| BURKINA FASO | BF | NICARAGUA | NI | |
| BURUNDI | BI | NIGER | NE | |
| CAMBODIA | KH | NIGERIA | NG | |
| CAMEROON | CM | NIUE | NU | |
| CANADA | CA | NORFOLK ISLAND | NF | |
| CAPE VERDE | CV | NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS | MP | |
| CAYMAN ISLANDS | KY | NORWAY | NO | |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | CF | OMAN | OM | |
| CHAD | TD | PAKISTAN | PK | |
| CHILE | CL | PALAU | PW | |
| CHINA | CN | PALESTINIAN TERRITORY | PS | |
| CHRISTMAS ISLAND | CX | PANAMA | PA | |
| COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS | CC | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | PG | |
| COLOMBIA | CO | PARAGUAY | PY | |
| COMOROS | KM | PERU | PE | |
| CONGO | CG | PHILIPPINES | PH | |
| COOK ISLANDS | CK | PITCAIRN | PN | |
| COSTA RICA | CR | POLAND | PL | |
| COTE D'IVOIRE | CI | PORTUGAL | PT | |
| CROATIA | HR | PUERTO RICO | PR | |
| CUBA | CU | QATAR | QA | |
| CYPRUS | CY | REUNION | RE | |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | CZ | ROMANIA | RO | |
| DENMARK | DK | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | RU | |
| DJIBOUTI | DJ | RWANDA | RW | |
| DOMINICA | DM | SAINT HELENA | SH | |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | DO | SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS | KN | |
| ECUADOR | EC | SAINT LUCIA | LC | |
| EGYPT | EG | SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON | PM | |
| EL SALVADOR | SV | SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES | VC | |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA | GQ | SAMOA | WS | |
| ERITREA | ER | SAN MARINO | SM | |
| ESTONIA | EE | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE | ST | |
| ETHIOPIA | ET | SAUDI ARABIA | SA | |
| FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) | FK | SENEGAL | SN | |
| FAROE ISLANDS | FO | SEYCHELLES | SC | |
| FIJI | FJ | SIERRA LEONE | SL | |
| FINLAND | FI | SINGAPORE | SG | |
| FRANCE | FR | SLOVAKIA | SK | |
| FRENCH GUIANA | GF | SLOVENIA | SI | |
| FRENCH POLYNESIA | PF | SOLOMON ISLANDS | SB | |
| FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES | TF | SOMALIA | SO | |
| GABON | GA | SOUTH AFRICA | ZA | |
| GAMBIA | GM | SPAIN | ES | |
| GEORGIA | GE | SRI LANKA | LK | |
| GERMANY | DE | SUDAN | SD | |
| GHANA | GH | SURINAME | SR | |
| GIBRALTAR | GI | SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN | SJ | |
| GREECE | GR | SWAZILAND | SZ | |
| GREENLAND | GL | SWEDEN | SE | |
| GRENADA | GD | SWITZERLAND | CH | |
| GUADELOUPE | GP | SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC | SY | |
| GUAM | GU | TAIWAN | TW | |
| GUATEMALA | GT | TAJIKISTAN | TJ | |
| GUINEA | GN | TANZANIA | TZ | |
| GUINEA-BISSAU | GW | THAILAND | TH | |
| GUYANA | GY | TIMOR-LESTE | TL | |
| HAITI | HT | TOGO | TG | |
| HOLY SEE (VATICAN CITY STATE) | VA | TOKELAU | TK | |
| HONDURAS | HN | TONGA | TO | |
| HONG KONG | HK | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | TT | |
| HUNGARY | HU | TUNISIA | TN | |
| ICELAND | IS | TURKEY | TR | |
| INDIA | IN | TURKMENISTAN | TM | |
| INDONESIA | ID | TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS | TC | |
| IRAN | IR | TUVALU | TV | |
| IRAQ | IQ | UGANDA | UG | |
| IRELAND | IE | UKRAINE | UA | |
| ISRAEL | IL | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | AE | |
| ITALY | IT | UNITED KINGDOM | GB | |
| JAMAICA | JM | UNITED STATES | US | |
| JAPAN | JP | URUGUAY | UY | |
| JORDAN | JO | UZBEKISTAN | UZ | |
| KAZAKHSTAN | KZ | VANUATU | VU | |
| KENYA | KE | VENEZUELA | VE | |
| KIRIBATI | KI | VIET NAM | VN | |
| KOREA | KR | VIRGIN ISLANDS | VG | |
| KUWAIT | KW | WALLIS AND FUTUNA | WF | |
| KYRGYZSTAN | KG | WESTERN SAHARA | EH | |
| LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC | LA | YEMEN | YE | |
| LATVIA | LV | YUGOSLAVIA | YU | |
| LEBANON | LB | ZAMBIA | ZM | |
| LESOTHO | LS | ZIMBABWE | ZW | |
| LIBERIA | LR |
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