Localisation/es

"Localización" es en general el proceso de proveer un software con una interfaz de usuario con múltiples lenguajes. En FreeCAD puedes cambiar el lenguaje de la interfaz en "Editar→Preferencias→Aplicación". FreeCAD usa Qt para facilitar el soporte de múltiples lenguajes. En Unix/Linux, FreeCAD utiliza la configuración local actual de tu sistema como predeterminado.

Ayudando a traducir FreeCAD
Una de las cosas más importantes que puedes hacer por FreeCAD si no eres un programador es ayudar a traducir el programa a tu idioma. Hacerlo es más fácil que antes, con el uso del sistema de traducción colaborativo en línea Crowdin.

Cómo traducir


It is proprietary software but free to FOSS projects. Below are instructions on how to use it:


 * Ve a la página del proyecto de traducción de FreeCAD en Crowdin;
 * Ingresa creando un nuevo perfil, o utilizando una cuenta terciaria como tu dirección de Gmail;
 * Da clic en el lenguaje en que deseas trabajar;
 * Comienza a traducir al dar clic en el botón de Traducir, al lado de alguno de los archivos. Por ejemplo, FreeCAD.ts contiene todos los strings para GUI principal de FreeCAD.
 * Puedes votar por une traducción existente, o puedes crear la tuya.

Nota: Si estás participando activamente en la taducción de FreeCAD y quieres ser informado antes de que la nueva versión sea liberada, para que tengas tiempo de revisar tu traducción, por favor suscríbete a este reporte: http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=137

Translating external workbenches
Visit Translating an external workbench.

Traduciendo la wiki
Esta wiki contiene un montón de contenido. El material más importante y actualizado es recopilado en el manual.

To translate the wiki, you must have wiki edit permissions; see How can I get edit permission on the wiki?.

You should also have enough knowledge of wiki markup and follow the general styling guidelines described on WikiPages.

Mediawiki Translation Extension
When the wiki moved away from SourceForge, Yorik installed MediaWiki's Translation extension which facilitates translating pages. Advantages of the translation extension are that the page title can now be translated, it keeps track of translations, it notifies if the original page has been updated, and it maintains translations in sync with the original English page.

The tool is documented in Help:Extension:Translate, and is part of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle.

To quickly get started on preparing a page for translation, please read the Page translation example. Essentially, a pair of

tags need to surround the entire page to activate the translation system, and the page needs to be marked for translation.

To see an example of how the translation tool works, visit the Main Page. You will see an automatically generated language bar at the top. Click on Hauptseite (German), it will get you to Main Page/de. Right under the title, you can read, XX being the current percentage of translation. Click on "Translate" at the top of the page to start the translation utility to update, correct and review the existing translation.

If you go to Main Page, you will notice that you cannot edit the page directly anymore by clicking the [Edit] tags, and the top link "Edit" has been substituted by the "Translate" link that opens the translation utility.

When adding new content, the English page should be created first, then translated into another language. If someone wants to change or add content in a page, the English page should be modified first.

Si no estas seguro de como proceder, no dudes en solicitar ayuda en los foros.

Important notes
Every wiki user that has "Editor" permissions is able to launch the translate utility and write, save, and review translations.

However, only users with "Administrator" permissions are able to mark pages for translation. A page that is not marked for translation won't make use of the translation extension and won't be correctly synchronized to the English information.

The left sidebar is also translatable, but only Administrators can modify this element of the site. Please follow the dedicated instructions on Localisation Sidebar.

The first time you switch a page to the new translation system, it loses all its old "manual" translations. To recover a translation, you should save an offline copy of the old text before the switch. Then you can use this old translated text to fill in the translation units in the new system. You can also open an earlier version from the history, and get the old text in this way. This has to be done for every language that had a translated page.

Translate the FreeCAD documentation
As per general consensus, the reference page in the wiki is the English page, which should be created first. If you want to change or add content to a page, you should do it to the English page first, and only once the update is completed, port the modification to the translated page.

Translate the FreeCAD website
Translation of the FreeCAD website is now done through Crowdin. The file is named.

Development - How to Add Localisation
This section is for developers who want to add localisation to their code.

Preparando tus propios módulos/aplicaciones para la traducción
All of the above steps are performed by the "translation scripts" which are run by an administrator periodically.

Preparing your module for translation is quite easy. First, you need to ensure that you have a "translations" directory in. Then open a terminal window (or Windows/OSX equivalent) in your "translations" directory and enter the following command:

This creates an empty translation file. Once this is done, you need to ensure that the translation scripts are updated as in this pull request.

Everything after this is automatic as far as a developer is concerned. The administrator will extract the text strings, the translators will translate them, then the administrator will extract the translations and update FreeCAD/master.

Older module translation techniques
Localization Older Methods describes the use of translation tools such as Qt Linguist, lupdate, lrelease, pylupdate4, etc in detail. Most of this is no longer required for FreeCAD/master modules, but may be helpful preparing and updating 3rd party modules.

Automating Crowdin Translation Updates
Currently FreeCAD maintainers use the Crowdin API via Crowdin Scripts to pull and push translations in to Crowdin and back in to the Github repo. The Crowdin API gives FreeCAD maintainers the ability to automate aspects of the project's translation workflow, for more info refer to the Crowdin API documentation.

Related Pages

 * Crowdin Administration
 * Crowdin Scripts