I finished the pictures for the Japanese Translation of Rainbow Feather today -
unfortunately I cannot put the translation into the plaintext UTF-8 encoded PHP-Files.
Update, if you have the language pack for Eastern Languages installed you can enjoy the whole beauty!
Does anyone know a walk-around for this problem?
Credits for the translation (I do not speak Japanese I must admit) go out to Yujin Takayanagi , thank you mate!
There are quite some obstacles that have to be overcome when translating / localizing themes or files in general to another language. For instance, not all alphabets are the same and encoded in the same way: the Brazilians have all those ~ above and underneath their letters:Ç for instance has to be translated to the html equivalent of ascii code
& #199; or the easier to remember & Ccedil;– it is the Latin capital letter C with cedilla who wouldn’t have guessed?!
Anyhow, with work for my mini-company at university stashing up I had little time so far – next exam is coming up at 11th January, so I will kick-start the translations with full-speed. While translating all my themes from English to Portuguese (Brazilian) I will fix numerous bugs and take out some items that people have complained about.
For instance, with the Dragee theme, I have added the “pages” tab- now pages are displayed on all sites (no idea why I did not do that earlier) – also the icons are grouped in one instance and carry one link now only.
Look at the below thumbnails and click them for some additional information.
Oh, also just realized when putting in the Tags for this post that I could add tag support maybe for all my themes!
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In connection with Samba BR I am working on Portuguese translations for all my themes.
Also, I got five new themes for WordPress stashed. I will also release widgetized updates of past themes and bug fix a few minor things in the coming days. Please stay tuned. I hope the WordPress Themeviewer will also be “ready on time”. Cannot wait to update my old themes to reflect the new changes.
I am currently working in connection with Samba BR to release Portuguese translations of all my themes. In addition, new themes will be released, both in English and Portuguese. If you have other language translation requests, please let me know.
The themeviewer announced on December 11th that work is being done at the moment: they are trying to establish a SVN-like system for themes (as they have for plugins within days) right now. I will keep you posted with more wordpress news!
Matt writes: (quote)
“Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow you to upload themes as you did before, as a plain ZIP file, and we’re transparently check it into SVN so changes can be tracked just like we do for WordPress development.
There will also be moderation and review so that we can scan themes for XSS problems, malicious code, spam links, and other ways that people have been distributing malware themes. I’m sorry this has taken longer than I thought it would, but the problems involved with doing things “right†are non-trivial. Most importantly we want to ensure that once the re-launch is done you’ll have easy, fast, and stable access to the best and brightest in the theme world, and you’ll never have to think twice about the code you’re downloading.”
Source: http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/4426/upcoming-changes/
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