shared workspace at a distance
# Translation of SWAD Antonio Cañas Vargas, 1999-2015
## SWAD is available in 9 languages SWAD LMS is available in 9 languages: Català Deutsch English Español Français Guarani (Avañe'ẽ) Italiano Polski Português ## Translation of the main core The SWAD main core, programmed in ANSI C, has been fully or partially translated to 9 languages. This is the people who has performed the translation or collaborated in it: Català (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Joan Lluís Díaz Rodríguez Deutsch (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Rafael Barranco-Droege English (traducción completa) Antonio Cañas Vargas Español (traducción completa) Antonio Cañas Vargas Français (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Guarani - Avañe'ẽ (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Italiano (full translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Nicola Comunale Rizzo Francisco Manuel Herrero Pérez Giuseppe Antonio Pagin Antonella Grande Polski (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas Wojtek Kieca Tomasz Olechowski Mateusz Stanko Português (partial translation) Antonio Cañas Vargas ### Information for translators If you want to translate SWAD to other languages or collaborate in the translation or revision of current languages, please contact with: Within the source code of the SWAD main core you can find the file `swad_text.c` containing all the texts in the different languages. Translators must respect the following rules: Download `swad_text.c` and load it in your editor using Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 character encoding. It is very important to respect the C syntax in `*printf` functions. All %s, %u, %d, %ld, etc. must be respected in the order indicated in the sentences already translated. HTML directives that appear in the text must be respected, for example <br />, <strong> </strong>, <em> </em>, etc. Except those texts marked with NO_HTML at the beginning of the file, all the texts should use HTML entities instead of certain special characters and accents. In w3schools you can find the most common ISO-8859-1 HTML entities. For example, you should write &aacute; instead of á, &Ntilde; instead of Ñ or &szlig; instead of ß. The HTML entities corresponding to guarani (avañe'ẽ) language for characters like ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ, ỹ, ĝ, Ã, Ẽ, Ĩ, Õ, Ũ, Ỹ, Ĝ can be found at http://www.datamex.com.py/guarani/neetekuaa/fuentes_tipograficas.html. The HTML entities corresponding to Polish for characters like Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż, ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż can be found at http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabet_polski. To speed up the process of translation is advisable to use tools like: Google translate (in English) or Traductor de Google (in Spanish) Wikipedia. For example, if you doubt the German translation of the term "file", you can visit the English article and change to the German article. Translator tool in Dictionary.com When you make a change in a sentence, you must write a special comment (`// something like your name`) at the end of the sentence to make it easy to review the changes. ## Translating other modules You can collaborate in the translation of SWADroid. ## Why work in translation? "Cuando me preguntan cuándo estará listo un programa, contesto: depende de cuánto trabaje usted en ello." --Richard Stallman 1 SWAD is free software, and like some other free software products, it does not have a budget for their development. So the translators should not expect money for their work, but learning, fun, achievement, recognition, and if they want, a certificate for their collaborative translation.