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Jeroen
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I've got a group of nice blokes together who have agreed on taking care of translating my skin in their languages.
And I was thinking, would it require a lot of work to make the XBMC translator application work with skin language files too? It would make the translating so much easier, and it would be of use to any skin out there of course.
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blittan
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you need to delete the cache, since the translator app makes a copy of strings.xml to compare too when doing the next translation so it knows which items are untranslated.
it's stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\
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1. add the english strings to a directory, then add new language from the translator...
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Jeroen
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I feel like an idiot, but last try
My steps
1. Folder structure:
xbmc
-skin
--language
---english
----strings.xml
nothing else is present
2. set language folder in xbmc translator. Point to "language" folder
3. new language in xbmc translator
4. same error as mentioned before, a directory with the language name is created, along with an empty strings file
5. any attempt to open the language results in yet again the same error
I have tried creating the directory elsewhere amongst many other scenarios but it just won't work.
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blittan
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hmm.. *think, think, think*
might need a langinfo.xml in the english folder..
switched to linux so i cant try out..
but i have used it to translate skins and scripts in the past when i used windows..