Initial international language support for MCX
Qianqian Fang
hi everyone,
I uploaded a few commits in the past few days, adding the long-planned support for international language support (i18n) of mcx.
Github CI builds of the latest multi-language mcx and mcxlab can
be found at
https://mcx.space/nightly/github/
use -y or --lang flag with nothing to list all supported languages (10 so far)
../bin/mcx --lang
Built-in languages:
zh_cn 简体中文
zh_tw 繁體中文（台灣）
ja_jp 日本語
fr_ca Français canadien
es_mx Español mexicano
de_de Deutsch
ko_kr 한국어
hi_in हिन्दी
ru_ru Русский
pt_br Português
-y/--lang followed by a language ID (such as zh_CN, fr_CA) to
print using the specified language; use cfg.lang='zh_CN' in mcxlab
or cfg['lang'] in pmcx to do the same in MATLAB/Python. pmcx has
been updated to v0.4.2 on pypi with the lang flag support.
I did the translation for Simplified Chinese first, and used AI to further translate those to other languages. I am not surprised that it does something funny.
If you are a native speaker of these languages, please help me verify if the translations make sense. Even for Chinese, I don't know the exact wordings for certain terminologies, such as partial-pathlength. Feel free to help me further improve those.
The translation source file is here:
https://github.com/fangq/mcx/blob/master/src/mcx_lang.c
if you are willing to contribute to improving these translations, fixing typos, or adding your own language that is not supported, please go to Github and create a PR (pull request) - see recommended steps.
I attached some screenshots, you can see more in this Linkedin post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fangq_i18n-mcx-activity-7335029243275313152-rfox/
Qianqian
