is klayout going to support Chinese Language?

[wudenggang]

as the title

[Kazzz-S]

Hi @wudenggang,

I think the answer would be NO.

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Over nine years ago, I discussed the same topic (multi-language support) offline with Matthias.

I will not go into details, but I tried to translate only the menu/message strings (1,600+ items as of version 0.23.4) from English to Japanese and found the work challenging to accomplish.

If we expect ALL of them (including the assistant document), the amount of work will be enormous!

Kazzz-S

[klayoutmatthias]

Ah yes.

I'm not able to do that and after all, there is too much text and documentation to be updated and kept in sync once changes are made.

Matthias

[s910324]

@Kazzz-S

Is there a string/text resource file that can be translated to enable multi-language or you achieve this by simply grind throuth each and individual *.ui file?

[Kazzz-S]

Hi @s910324,

It's the latter, basically. It's such an old activity that I don't remember it very well. However, I do remember suggesting the use of QtLinguist; the major problem was that due to the long development history of KLayout, not all related strings were included in the QObject::tr() function.

Kazzz-S