Interface Languages

Every author of a new Language File gets
a free license for Collection Studio!

Overview

The multi-language interface of Collection Studio has become available from version 2.40. English is the default language, and an unlimited number of other languages can be added.

Collection Studio uses Language Files (*.lng - files). These files (English.lng, French.lng, Russian.lng, ...) are situated in directory where the program was installed and they are text files containing strings with user's interface in different languages. For translating any special knowledge isn't needed. That's why you can translate lng-file into your native language and use it with Collection Studio.

How to translate LNG files?

We are very grateful you for your interest to translation of our software.

The LNG file is rather a big file. Its length is above 15 Kbytes. So for the first sight it might to be hard to translate it. But it's wrong. Near the half of the LNG file should be NOT translated to make our program understand which string is should be used for particular situation!

For creating a new lng-file, or editing old one you can use any file editor, for example NotePad.

Follow the next rules, and you'll understand that it's easy:

• Do not translate strings in the square brackets ([]).
• Do not translate strings before the first '=' sign.
• Do not remove or append any new special sub-strings (for example '%%', '%d', '%2d', '%s', '\n', '\t' and etc).
• Do not translate strings after '#' sign - it is comments for editor.
• Translate only words and phrases in each file-line starting after the first '=' sign.
• (optional) Place the '&' sign in the strings to able to reach a menu item using the Alt key.
• Try to keep original length of the string. It means that it won't do if translated string is larger in 3 or 4 times than original.
• Save the file as 'YourLanguage.lng' in the same folder as Collection Studio.
• After translating check you lng-file using the program. For doing this, select your language in the program in Main Menu: View > Interface Language and verify that all strings were translated and the length is acceptable.
• If you wish, you can write down an lng-file information in the first section (Description): name of the language, version, date when the last changes were made, your name and your e-mail address. If you provide us an URL with your home page, it will be placed on this page (in Collection Studio Help File, and on our web-site in the section "Online Collection Studio Help File").

Example

String 'AAA' - is an original string (in the base language);
String 'BBB' - is a translated string;

Source part of the lng-file:

# AAA
[AAA]
AAA=&AAA
AAA=AAA %d &AAA

Translated this part should be:

# AAA
[AAA]
AAA=&BBB
AAA=BBB %d B&BB

Statistics View

Currently translation of the statistics view is done using additional language file. It is placed in the sub folder "Stats" with corresponding filename. So, for example, if you set Collection Studio Interface language as poland (Poland.lng) the Poland.htm will be used for statistics. If no such file, English.htm will be used.

Translations

Collection Studio Interface Transaltions

Language	Collection Studio Version	Last changed	Download from collectionstudio.com	Translated by
Belarussian	3.48	July 31, 2008	download	Igor Petrenko
Czech	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Jaroslav Minar
English	3.51	November 18, 2008	download	S&S Royal Limited
French	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Christian Seruzier
Hungarian	3.50	November 27, 2008	download	Mr. Peter Palla
Italian	2.47	August 11, 2008	download	De Profundis Rebecchino
Lithuanian	3.50	November 27, 2008	download	Laurius Vaitkevicius
Polish	3.50	November 18, 2008	download	Duszkiewicz Krzysztof
Portuguese	3.48	July 31, 2008	download	Antonio Mendona
Portuguese (Brasil) *	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Rodrigo Spano
Romanian	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Catalin Stefan
Russian	3.51	November 18, 2008	download	S&S Royal Limited
Slovak	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Jaroslav Minar
Spanish	2.47	July 31, 2008	download	Rui Costa
Turkish	3.50	August 8, 2008	download	Ali Koc

* - About the terminology Portuguese-BR, it is because, there should be also Portuguese-PT, which stands for Portuguese from Portugal. Both languages have most of words with the same writting and meaning but, some of them are different. For example, 'File' is 'Arquivo' in Brazil and 'Ficheiro' in Portugal.

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