In FieldWorks 8, when a writing system is added to a project, localized translated list content for that writing system will be installed automatically. If you need to update translations for a writing system already in your project, you would use a procedure similar to the one described below. Assuming a 64-bit version of Windows, and a default installation, the file you would choose would be c:Program Files (x86)SILFieldWorks 8TemplatesLocalizedLists-??.zip. Note that you are importing a zip file rather than xml.
- Start FieldWorks.
- Open the project you want to update the translated lists in.
- Go to the Lexicon Area.
- Choose the option File/Import/Translated List Content.
- Navigate to c:Program FilesSILFieldWorksTemplates. Choose the file LocalizedLists-??.xml (where ?? is replaced by your language code). Click Open.
- In Format/Set up Writing Systems, make sure your language is added as an Analysis Writing System.
- Now go to the Lists area. Depending on what was in the language pack, you may see semantic domains in that language, or other lists (such as Morpheme Type). However, not all list content is translated in all languages.
If the localization package you want is updated for a released version, you can see the change on the release page of the distribution in the “What’s New” section. Installing the version of FieldWorks will automatically include the most recent version of the localization packages.
If you find errors in the translations or would like to contribute to existing or future translations, please send your feedback.
Below is the status of translated material for all of the languages with existing translated content
This language pack contains:
- User interface: 1% complete (Has not been checked at all by a native speaker; was produced by machine translation.)
- Semantic Domains (partial) included from 7.2.0 on
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- No user interface translation.
- Semantic Domains (partial)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- No user interface translation.
- Semantic Domains (partial)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 1% complete
- Semantic domains: not yet
- Includes one List (key terms)
Language Packs for Download:
This language pack contains:
- No user interface translation.
- Semantic Domains (partial)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- No user interface translation.
- Semantic Domains (partial)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface (99% translated, moderately checked by native speakers)
- Semantic domains: partial translation included from 7.0.1 onwards (updated in 7.2.0).
- Many of the other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface (100% translated, extensively checked by users)
- Semantic Domains: From version 7.2.3, there is a corrected and improved translation.
- Other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User interface: 59% complete (roughly half has been checked by native speaker linguists)
- Semantic domains: from 7.0.1 onwards includes complete translation of the list.
- Some other List content.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 85% complete (checked by native speaker linguists)
- Semantic domains: from 7.0.1 onwards, includes a complete translation of the list.
- Some of the other Lists are translated.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 66% complete
- Mostly checked by users of Language Explorer
- Semantic domains: from 7.0.1 onwards, includes a partial translation of the list.
- Many other Lists are partially translated.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: only a handful of strings translated
- No semantic domains
- No other Lists
Other info:
- This is added in version 8.3.1 Beta.
- Has not been checked at all by a native speaker; was produced by machine translation.
- This is provided here merely to see if this is useful to anyone, and to see if there is interest in having more of this completed.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 25% complete
- No semantic domains
- No other List content
To build this package, we had to “borrow” a language code. When you are setting the User Interface language in FieldWorks, choose “română” in order to see Kinyarwanda.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 11% complete
- Has not been checked at all by a native speaker; was produced by machine translation.
- No semantic domains
- Many of the Lists are translated
Other info:
- This is provided here merely to see if this is useful to anyone, and to see if there is interest in having more of this completed.
- User interface last updated Mar 18 2010 unless otherwise noted.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 57% complete (has not been checked thoroughly by a native speaker)
- No semantic domains (yet)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 47% complete
- Most has been checked by native speaker who uses Language Explorer
- No semantic domains
- Includes translation of the anthropology categories list, and other lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 80% complete
- Checked by a native speaker linguist, but not by someone who uses Language Explorer
- No semantic domains (yet)
- No other Lists
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 15% complete
- No semantic domains
- No other Lists
Other info:
- Has not been checked at all by a native speaker; was produced by machine translation.
- This is provided here merely to see if this is useful to anyone, and to see if there is interest in having more of this completed.
This language pack contains:
- User Interface: 16% complete
- No semantic domains
- No other Lists
Other info:
- User interface has not been checked by a native speaker.
- This is provided here merely to see if this is useful to anyone, and to see if there is interest in having more of this completed.
- User interface last updated Jan 23 2011 unless otherwise noted.