Jim Hewes wrote: > I realize that it's a volunteer effort. So I think that means that the > translations may happen next week, or they may never happen at all, true? Correct. > I > guess my question is: what hope do I have? Is there a definite expectation > for more languages to be done? > Gabor's localization project page is at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/loc/index.php. It shows French as being finished. It's not in the WiX distribution, likely because of the paperwork involved. Italian is still marked "open."
Odds are impossible to calculate. Well, accurate ones anyway.<g> As a volunteer effort, it's all "scratch an itch" -- apparently there hasn't been a big need for Italian UI yet. That said, though localization isn't cheap, there aren't that many strings involved -- ~230 for the dialogs and ~350 for the action text and error messages. I wonder if someone managed the translation process with a translation company, could the WiX community collect enough donations to make it cheap? > Also, I should throw another question in while I'm at it. Will WiX 3.0 have > a different GUI? Will that invalidate all the existing languages? Or will > the existing language files be updated at the same time? > WiX v3 might get additional UI sets. (I checked in the beginnings of one last night.) As most of the dialogs are reused, it doesn't invalidate the existing translations but some strings will be unavailable. The sets shared between v2 and v3 are still valid. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
