OpenOffice.org 3.1 is knocking on the door and we are proud to deliver more languages than ever before. I've seen near by 100 full install-sets for m5 testing! Great to see this engagement by the community, big thanks to everyone.

Many of the translators use pootle to translate the OpenOffice.org UI and help. Having so many languages implicit brings a huge overhead of organisation and time-pressure into the process and we want to ease the translation process and break down barriers. Therefor we added some new links on tools.services.openoffice.org. You find here the dynamic generated list of all Pootle languages on our sunvirtuallab servers. This should help to find YOUR Pootle-server with YOUR languages to translate.

A second link is for downloading the newest gsi-check tool. The gsi-check tool validates the OpenOffice.org translation files. This tool should be used to guarantee format-error free translation files and helps us to accelerate merging in the translation into the product. Please use it before submitting your translation file for a new office version, thank you.

Best regards,

Frank

tags: l10n localization ooo openoffice.org tools web

Hi l10n people,

the "localization35" CWS was integrated into the OOO310_m5 milestone.

In order to test this localization we go a different way than normal. Builds with full installation sets and all available languages were created but these need more space. Therefore we have uploaded them to a different location than usually:

http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/localization/ooo310_m5/

Important:
These builds were built with productname "OpenOffice.org". So a parallel installation with already released 3.x versions is not possible this time.

Please take the chance and test the localization quality, not only but especially. The focus can also be set to the installer due to the full installation sets. If you find problems, please file them in the OpenOffice.org issue tracker:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Best regards

Marcus

tags: l10n localization openoffice.org qa release testing

The localisation CWS localisation27 is now integrated, so we can report some info about localisation for OOo 2.4 release.

Well, we got one new language - occitan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language). So far there is just a little part translated, but anyway.

The overall languages updated - 65, namely: af ar be-BY bg bn br bs ca cs cy de el en-GB en-ZA eo es et eu fa fi fr gl he hr hu it ja ka km ko ku lt mk nb ne nl nn ns oc pa-IN pl pt pt-BR ru rw sh-YU sk sl sr-CS ss st sv sw-TZ tg tn tr ts uk uz ve vi xh zh-CN zh-TW zu

As usual, the common problem was neglecting of using of gsicheck, which led to erroneous gsi-files, and thus to rejected strings.

Some translation updates missed the deadline, and some came too late.

tags: i18n l10n localisation localization openoffice.org

With integration of CWS locales23 to SRC680_m219 for the upcoming OOo2.3 release the number of fully supported locales with locale data grew to 159. For character attribution and spell-checking purposes we now offer 201 languages/locales.

List of locales with locale data

 af_NA: Afrikaans - Namibia
 af_ZA: Afrikaans - South Africa
 ak_GH: Akan - Ghana
 am_ET: Amharic - Ethiopia
 ar_EG: Arabic - Egypt
 ar_LB: Arabic - Lebanon
 ar_SA: Arabic - Saudi Arabia
 ar_TN: Arabic - Tunisia
 az_AZ: Azerbaijani - Azerbaijan
 be_BY: Belarusian - Belarus
 bg_BG: Bulgarian - Bulgaria
 bn_BD: Bengali - Bangladesh
 bn_IN: Bengali - India
 br_FR: Breton - France
 bs_BA: Bosnian - Bosnia-Herzegovina
 ca_ES: Catalan - Spain
 cs_CZ: Czech - Czech Republic
 cv_RU: Chuvash - Russia
 cy_GB: Welsh - United Kingdom
 da_DK: Danish - Denmark
 de_AT: German - Austria
 de_CH: German - Switzerland
 de_DE: German - Germany
 de_LI: German - Liechtenstein
 de_LU: German - Luxembourg
 dz_BT: Dzongkha - Bhutan
 ee_GH: Éwé - Ghana
 el_GR: Greek - Greece
 en_AU: English - Australia
 en_BZ: English - Belize
 en_CA: English - Canada
 en_GB: English - United Kingdom
 en_GH: English - Ghana
 en_IE: English - Ireland
 en_IN: English - India
 en_JM: English - Jamaica
 en_NA: English - Namibia
 en_NZ: English - New Zealand
 en_PH: English - Philippines
 en_TT: English - Trinidad and Tobago
 en_US: English - United States
 en_ZA: English - South Africa
 en_ZW: English - Zimbabwe
 eo   : Esperanto   
 es_AR: Spanish - Argentina
 es_BO: Spanish - Bolivia
 es_CL: Spanish - Chile
 es_CO: Spanish - Colombia
 es_CR: Spanish - Costa Rica
 es_DO: Spanish - Dominican Republic
 es_EC: Spanish - Ecuador
 es_ES: Spanish - Spain
 es_GT: Spanish - Guatemala
 es_HN: Spanish - Honduras
 es_MX: Spanish - Mexico
 es_NI: Spanish - Nicaragua
 es_PA: Spanish - Panama
 es_PE: Spanish - Peru
 es_PR: Spanish - Puerto Rico
 es_PY: Spanish - Paraguay
 es_SV: Spanish - El Salvador
 es_UY: Spanish - Uruguay
 es_VE: Spanish - Venezuela
 et_EE: Estonian - Estonia
 eu   : Basque   
 fa_IR: Persian - Iran
 fi_FI: Finnish - Finland
 fo_FO: Faroese - Faroe Islands
 fr_BE: French - Belgium
 fr_CA: French - Canada
 fr_CH: French - Switzerland
 fr_FR: French - France
 fr_LU: French - Luxembourg
 fr_MC: French - Monaco
fur_IT: Friulian - Italy
 fy_NL: Frisian, Western - Netherlands
 ga_IE: Irish - Ireland
 gl_ES: Galician - Spain
gsc_FR: Gascon - France
 gu_IN: Gujarati - India
 ha_GH: Hausa - Ghana
 he_IL: Hebrew - Israel
 hi_IN: Hindi - India
 hr_HR: Croatian - Croatia
 hu_HU: Hungarian - Hungary
 hy_AM: Armenian - Armenia
 ia   : Interlingua   
 id_ID: Indonesian - Indonesia
 is_IS: Icelandic - Iceland
 it_CH: Italian - Switzerland
 it_IT: Italian - Italy
 ja_JP: Japanese - Japan
 ka_GE: Georgian - Georgia
 kk_KZ: Kazakh - Kazakhstan
 kl_GL: Kalaallisut - Kalaallit Nunaat
 km_KH: Khmer - Cambodia
 kn_IN: Kannada - India
 ko_KR: Korean - Korea
 ku_TR: Kurdish - Turkey
 ky_KG: Kirghiz - Kyrgyzstan
 la_VA: Latin - State of the Vatican City
 lb_LU: Luxembourgish - Luxemburg
 lg_UG: Ganda - Uganda
 ln_CD: Lingala - Democratic Republic of the Congo
 lo_LA: Lao - Laos
 lt_LT: Lithuanian - Lithuania
 lv_LV: Latvian - Latvia
 mk_MK: Macedonian - Republic of Macedonia
 ml_IN: Malayalam - India
 mn_MN: Mongolian - Mongolia
 mr_IN: Marathi - India
 ms_MY: Bahasa Melayu - Malaysia
 nb_NO: Norwegian Bokmål - Norway
 ne_NP: Nepali - Nepal
 nl_BE: Dutch - Belgium
 nl_NL: Dutch - Netherlands
 nn_NO: Norwegian Nynorsk - Norway
 no_NO: Norwegian - Norway
 nr_ZA: Ndebele, South - South Africa
nso_ZA: Northern Sotho - South Africa
 oc_FR: Occitan - France
 or_IN: Oriya - India
 pa_IN: Punjabi - India
 pl_PL: Polish - Poland
 pt_BR: Portuguese - Brazil
 pt_PT: Portuguese - Portugal
 ro_RO: Romanian - Romania
 ru_RU: Russian - Russia
 rw_RW: Kinyarwanda - Rwanda
 sg_CF: Sango - Central African Republic
 sh_YU: Serbian Latin - Serbia and Montenegro
 sk_SK: Slovak - Slovak Republic
 sl_SI: Slovenian - Slovenia
 sr_YU: Serbian Cyrillic - Serbia and Montenegro
 ss_ZA: Swati - South Africa
 st_ZA: Sotho - South Africa
 sv_FI: Swedish - Finland
 sv_SE: Swedish - Sweden
 sw_TZ: Swahili - Tanzania
 ta_IN: Tamil - India
 te_IN: Telugu - India
 tg_TJ: Tajik - Tajikistan
 th_TH: Thai - Thailand
 ti_ER: Tigrigina - Eritrea
 tn_ZA: Tswana - South Africa
 tr_TR: Turkish - Turkey
 ts_ZA: Tsonga - South Africa
 uk_UA: Ukrainian - Ukraine
 uz_UZ: Uzbek - Uzbekistan
 ve_ZA: Venda - South Africa
 vi_VN: Vietnamese - Vietnam
 wa_BE: Walloon - Belgium
 xh_ZA: Xhosa - South Africa
 zh_CN: Simplified Chinese - China
 zh_HK: Chinese - Hong Kong, China
 zh_MO: Chinese - Macau, China
 zh_SG: Chinese - Singapore
 zh_TW: Chinese - Taiwan, China
 zu_ZA: Zulu - South Africa

List of languages/locales available for character attribution

Afrikaans (Namibia)
Afrikaans (South Africa)
Akan
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic (Algerian)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (UAE)
Arabic (Yemen)
Armenian
Assami
Azerbaijani (Latin)
Bambara
Basque
Bengali (Bangladesh)
Bengali (India)
Bulgarian
Burmese
Byelorussian
Catalan
Chinese (Hong Kong)
Chinese (Macau)
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese (Singapore)
Chinese (traditional)
Chuvash
Coptic
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Default
Dhivehi
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
Dzongkha
English (Australia)
English (Belize)
English (Canada)
English (Caribbean)
English (Eire)
English (Ghana)
English (India)
English (Jamaica)
English (Namibia)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (Trinidad)
English (UK)
English (USA)
English (Zimbabwe)
Esperanto
Estonian
Éwé
Faroese
Farsi
Fijian
Finnish
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Luxembourg)
French (Monaco)
French (Switzerland)
Frisian
Friulian
Gaelic (Scotland)
Galician
Ganda
Gascon
Georgian
German (Austria)
German (Belgium)
German (Germany)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Greek
Gujarati
Hausa (Ghana)
Hausa (Nigeria)
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Interlingua
Irish
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Japanese
Kannada
Kashmiri (India)
Kashmiri (Kashmir)
Kazak
Khmer
Kirghiz
Konkani
Korean (RoK)
Kurdish (Iran)
Kurdish (Iraq)
Kurdish (Syria)
Kurdish (Turkey)
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malayalam
Malay (Brunei Darusalam)
Malay (Malaysia)
Manipuri
Maori (New Zealand)
Marathi
Mongolian
Moore
Ndebele (South)
Nepali (India)
Nepali (Nepal)
Northern Sotho
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Oriya
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi
Rhaeto-Romance
Romanian
Russian
Sango
Sanskrit
Sardinian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovakian
Slovenian
Southern Sotho
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Bolivia)
Spanish (Chile)
Spanish (Colombia)
Spanish (Costa Rica)
Spanish (Dom. Rep.)
Spanish (Ecuador)
Spanish (El Salvador)
Spanish (Guatemala)
Spanish (Honduras)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Modern)
Spanish (Nicaragua)
Spanish (Panama)
Spanish (Paraguay)
Spanish (Peru)
Spanish (Puerto Rico)
Spanish (Spain)
Spanish (Uruguay)
Spanish (Venezuela)
Swahili (Kenya)
Swahili (Tanzania)
Swazi
Swedish (Finland)
Swedish (Sweden)
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan (PR China)
Tigrigna (Eritrea)
Tigrigna (Ethiopia)
Tsonga
Tswana (Botswana)
Tswana (South Africa)
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu (India)
Urdu (Pakistan)
Uzbek (Latin)
Venda
Vietnamese
Walloon
Welsh
Xhosa
Zulu

tags: i18n internationalization l10n locale-data locales localization openoffice.org