[chromium-dev] Re: [chromium-discuss] Localize Chrome Browser into Sinhala

[PhistucK]

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Could be, but you should ask that at the Chromium Dev group, I believe.

☆PhistucK

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:41, Arunoda Susiripala <arunoda.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

ah. Is that da story.
Ok at least could anyone can help us on how to do that in chromium.

On 5/13/10, PhistucK <phis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Chrome translations are not community driven, there is a team of Googlers

> working on the translations.*
> **You cannot add translations to Google Chrome, only to Chromium (the open
> source project) and only locally (unless you distribute it yourself).
> *
> *☆PhistucK
>
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:30, Arunoda Susiripala <
> arunoda.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> we are from the University of Kelaniya  Srilanka. [0]
>> we are interested in localizing Google Chrome into Sinhala which is
>> our mother tongue.
>> We've found a documentation available here [1] and it seems to be too
>> technical and looking for how to proceed with localization
>>
>> your help will be hugely appreciated.
>>
>> [0] - http://mit.kln.ac.lk
>> [1] - http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/ui-localization
>>
>> thanks
>>
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[Tony Chang]

As PhistucK mentioned, you can make translations, but you will need to compile and distribute your own build of Chromium.  There are quite a few places you need to change to add a new translation-- it will require some technical skills.  Here's an overview of the bare minimum you'd need to do:

1) Find all the .xtb files in the project.  Create a new one for your language.

2) Add the new .xtb files to their corresponding .grd files.

3) Modify the build to know about your language and to create a language dll or pak file.

I think you'd also need to modify ICU to know about your new language, but I'm not sure about that part.

tony