How to add a new language into GUI

[oldgringo]

Hi guys,

A few days ago I had to add a new language into router‘s GUI. So if you need something similar, here is a short description of how-to do it.

Core of everything is a *.dict file in router/www directory. It’s a file with more than 1500 sentences which have to be translated into required language. So a few hours of typing.

...tap, tap, tap..

Phew! Finally! I did it!
And it’s almost done, you have to add only a few lines into 3 additional files. So here we go step by step. Example here is for Slovak translation (including zipped SK.dict file), added rows are in blue.

Step 1:
.../router/www/Lang_Hdr

[Language type]
CHAR_set=UTF-8
PASS_LANG=Language:
LANG_select=Select Language
LANG_EN=English
...
[B][COLOR="Blue"]LANG_SK=Slovensky[/COLOR]
[/B][End of Language Type]

Step 2:
.../router/httpd/httpd.c

struct language_table language_tables[] = {
		{"en-us", "EN"},
		{"en", "EN"},
		...
[B][COLOR="Blue"]		{"sk", "SK"},
		{"sk-SK", "SK"},
[/COLOR][/B]		{NULL, NULL}
};

Step 3:
.../router/www/state.js

function show_selected_language(){
		switch($("preferred_lang").value){
			case 'EN':{
				$('selected_lang').innerHTML = "English";
				break;
			}
			...
[B][COLOR="Blue"]			case 'SK':{
				$('selected_lang').innerHTML = "Slovensky";
				break;
			}		
[/COLOR][/B]		}
}

function addOnlineHelp(obj, keywordArray){
		var faqLang = {
			EN : "en",
			...
			[B][COLOR="Blue"]SK : "en"[/COLOR][/B]
		}
function search_supportsite(obj){
		var faqLang = {
			EN : "en",
			...
			[B][COLOR="Blue"]SK : "en"[/COLOR][/B]
		}

And that’s all, everything is now prepared for building of a new firmware package. Dict file covers translation for 90% of texts, that's the maximum at this moment. Good luck!

 

[janda]

Hope, RMerlin will add our native language to new builds.

Thanx for your hard work!

 

[oldgringo]

Here is updated Slovak dict file for build 39.