Request English U.K. / Australian Language Addon?

[havin-fun]

Has a UK / U.K. / Great Britain Language addon been created?
Or possibley an Australian language pack?

I can't really think of any other country with the same spelling other than New Zealand, Fiji, Christmas Island etc. (But I highly doubt it's been labeled Fiji English Language Pack). lol (:

Would be great if someone could perhaps share their modifications with the use of the language tool, or perhaps share half of the project, so others can assist in providing this to the community.

Any other 'ex pats', pom's or 'aussies' here?
Cheers!
Emma.

[supportskins]

It is quite easy to create one, you can do that yourself

[havin-fun]

Do it myself!

Am I supposed to be some sort of computer coding geek!
I'm a photoshop geek, and am not familiar on how to speak US English...

They i've seen the conversion tool, which you attach two different files, but all that does is transfer current translations to new language file.

If only you could just run it all through Google to translate!

I personally haven't looked at the US English file, but from what i've been told, it's more of a 2-3 person job.

I support you could actually just put it into word, then spell check, then copy into notepad, and then copy back into the php file!

Which xml file is it for the original [us] english?

[havin-fun]

Is there a step-by-step article available for doing this?
Emma.

[supportskins]

All you need to do is edit a single XML file and nothing more. You can find that file in the /setup/includes directory of the software package which you would have downloaded. The file is swift.language.xml. Open the file in WordPad and edit, there isnt any coding involved. All you need to make sure is that you do not break/remove anything which is required.

[craigbrass]

To be honest, I'd just stick with the USA spelling of things. People are used to having these on the internet.

[John Haugeland]

Originally Posted by havin-fun

Am I supposed to be some sort of computer coding geek!

You basically just make a duplicate of the US english XML file, open the file in your favorite editor, and start adding the letter "u" at random to every word you can find. Bang: Briutuiush Engliuuuuuuush.

Aluminium indeed.

But seriously, it's just a big block of text strings surrounded in <thing>...</thing>. Edit the text strings to suit your spellings of choice, save it, load it, and call it a day. No particular expertise required beyond familiarity with your language.

[havin-fun]

And change all the Z's to S's....

Specialize to Specialise!

[John Haugeland]

Havin-fun: I confezz I zee how that could be dezirable. Ztill, I'm not zure it'z all of them.

[havin-fun]

Well-a you-a is-a just-a jealous! (italian translation)


So i guess the only way to translate everything is to go through line by line....
Emma.

[havin-fun]

P.S. What about the spell checker?
How does one update these words?

[John Haugeland]

havin-fun: Install alternate aspell dictionaries.