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Vim - the text editor - for macOS

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Epic: Localize MacVim and add translations #1102

Open ychin opened 3 years ago

ychin commented 3 years ago

This issue is used to serve as an epic to track the ongoing work to localize MacVim.

Messages

[x] Support Vim message translation (see :help multilang-messages) / :set lang (#1070)
[ ] Add MacVim-specific translations for MacVim-specific messages.
- [ ] Welcome messages (some done in #1071)
- [ ] Modified "file changes" messages
- [ ] Etc
[ ] Messages used by MacVim overall app itself (using NSLocalizedString). E.g. when you are quitting using Cmd-Q but have modified files.

Menus

[x] Support Vim menu translations (see :help multilang-menus) / :set langmenu (#1099)
[x] Add Apple official translations for common menu names like "Copy" or "Font" that MacVim uses (#1099)
[ ] Translate remaining menu items.

User Interface (e.g. preference pane)

[ ] Need translations.

Documentation (:help macvim / gui_mac.txt)

[ ] Need translations

ychin commented 10 months ago

One option is to use Crowdin to manage the localization if it's easier for contributors. We don't really have enough strings to justify such effort though.