Hi folks!

We're starting to translate upcoming versions into different languages. The necessary code changes for OC 2.0 were already done.
Now we need translators.

Before posting every stuff here I want to gather the translators here. Who is able and willing to translate the strings (currently 724) into what language(s) [or has somebody who does this]?

From the last discussions I remember people wanting to do this for French, Italian, Spanish, German but I don't remember who exactly said that he/she will help. We already have a Japanese translation, but that needs an heavy update.

Edit:
For a new translation create a new catalogue from the pot file.
I encourage everybody to use a GUI for that. Some explanations how to do that with my favourite language file editor Poedit and some general instructions:
- File->New catalogue from POT-file (choose latest open-cobol.pot)
- Insert project name: "open-cobol 2.0" and the rest as needed
- Save file with chosen language abbreviation like it is placed in http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
- Start translation

Some hints for Poedit first-time-users:
- Choose the string you want to translate in the upper pane.
- Translate the text in the lower pane.
- Always keep special characters like %s, %d, \n, ... The % are place holders (values will be inserted there by OpenCOBOL). \n is a line break, \t a tab, ...
- Use [ALT]+[C] often. It copies the original string to the translation field where you can change what's needed. This function can be found in edit menu, too.
- If you're not sure if one of the translations is correct mark it as fuzzy with [ALT]+[U] or via edit menu.

Current assignments of translations:
fr: eraso (finished [updates will be needed later]) [earlier: Bear (maybe aouizerate, too)]
hi: Yanni
de: erstazi
es: jcurrey (finished [updates will be needed later])
ja: minemaz (later)
it: ?federico?

OK, here is the pot-file from 11-09-06.

human