Fun fact: English reading KeeFox users are outnumbered by people that prefer to read other languages.
Unfortunately English is the only language in which I can write so to help the majority of KeeFox users to understand KeeFox I rely on the great work of translators that donate their time to help translate KeeFox into various languages.
Some languages are already complete and able to be included with the next version of KeeFox but most are not ready, including lots that are available for the current version of KeeFox but will be removed soon if they are not updated.
Over the next 10 days I hope that some of you will be able to join the translation team and translate some of KeeFox into your preferred language. It’s really easy to get started and you will:
- be able to practise writing English, probably learning a little new technical vocabulary along the way
- help others who speak your language but do not understand English very well
- be able to use KeeFox every day in your preferred language
All translations completed by the 23rd February will be included in the upcoming KeeFox 1.3 but any significant new translation work will continue to be released to the beta testing channel every few weeks so even incomplete work would be a huge step towards getting your language into a future stable KeeFox release, even if it doesn’t quite make it for version 1.3.0.
We use a free website called Transifex to translate KeeFox. There is good documentation available on their website but the rough idea is that the text in KeeFox is divided up into about 350 different snippets of text; Transifex shows you the English “string” of text and asks you type in the equivalent text in your own language.
There are two “resources” in the KeeFox project - the “main” resource which should be completed before a language can be included in the stable version of KeeFox and the “FAMS” resource which contains the messages and tips that help new users. While the translation of the “FAMS” resource is important, I won’t hold back an otherwise complete language translation if that resource is incomplete.
Go to Transifex now to find out the status of your language or read on for more detail.
If you don’t see your language listed, you can request that it is added and I’ll try to respond quickly to your request.
If your language is already translated, you can review the translation work done by others to help check for typos, etc.
To test your translation you’ll need to use the beta version of KeeFox but it’s essentially ready for release now so don’t let that put you off.
At this time, the following translations will no longer be supported in KeeFox 1.3 unless someone is able to help out with the translation:
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Swedish (only 5 translations missing)
The following translations have been started but not yet reached a stage where they can be included in the stable KeeFox release:
- Italian
- Korean
- Hungarian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Vietnamese
Finally, the following languages have been added to Transifex because they are popular among KeeFox users so it would be great if you are able to devote a little time to translating these languages.
- Taiwanese
- Finnish
- Japanese
- Spanish
Thanks for reading and I hope you’ll join our translation team soon!