Thursday 12 March 2009

Linden Lab Viewer Update

Linden Lab has updated the community on progress being made with localisation with the SL viewer. The full story can be read here.

I'll let LL continue:

Localized Viewers:

As promised, the viewer is now available in ten languages. It has been translated into German, French, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese and Polish. It is still partially translated into Spanish and Danish. Next version (1.23) will feature fully revamped Spanish, further improved Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Danish. We will also add the following languages: Italian, Dutch, Russian, and Ukrainian. We may be able to squeeze one more (fingers crossed).

Over the past months, the localized French, German and Japanese Viewers have all been improved through collaborative glossary compiling, translations, internationalization and localization testing completed by Resident volunteers.

A similar effort is now under way for Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Danish where our residents have collaboratively developed glossaries, determining style and register guidelines. They are now collaboratively translating and editing viewer strings.

In the meantime, our Engineering Team is working hard to fix the internationalization issues that prevent full localization of the viewer.

Other Localizations:

Thanks to the collaborative work of our wonderful community translators, editors and testers, the registration section of our website is now available in nine languages: German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Dutch.

Yo can continue reading here